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Titolo: | Lewd & notorious : female transgression in the eighteenth century / / edited by Katharine Kittredge |
Pubblicazione: | Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/352042 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism | |
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature | |
Difference (Psychology) in literature | |
Deviant behavior in literature | |
Female offenders in literature | |
Conduct of life in literature | |
Dissenters in literature | |
Outsiders in literature | |
Lesbians in literature | |
Women in literature | |
Crime in literature | |
Altri autori: | KittredgeKatharine |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Contexts for the Consideration of the Transgressive Antitype -- Part I - Transgressive Words -- 1 - "Queer to Queer": The Sapphic Body as Transgressive Text -- 2 - Claiming the "Sacred Mantle": The Memoirs of Lætitia Pilkington -- 3 - Elizabeth Carter's Self-Pun-ishment: Puns, Pedantry, and Polite Learning -- Part II - Transgressive Images -- 4 - A Carnival of Mirrors: The Grotesque Body of the Eighteenth-Century British Masquerade -- 5 - Lustful Widows and Old Maids in Late Eighteenth-Century English Caricatures -- 6 - Sensibility and Speculation: Emma Hamilton -- Part III - Transgressive Acts -- 7 - "Every Like Is Not the Same," or Is It?: Gender, Criminal Biographies, and the Politics of Indifference -- 8 - Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: Representations of Guilt and Innocence in Legal and Literary Texts, 1753-1989 -- 9 - A Mistress, a Mother, and a Murderess Too: Elizabeth Brownrigg and the Social Construction of an Eighteenth-Century Mistress -- Part IV - Transgressive Fictions -- 10 - Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading -- 11 - "A-Killing Their Children with Safety": Maternal Identity and Transgression in Swift and Defoe -- 12 - Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters: Revolution and Female Sexuality -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Lewd & notorious |
ISBN: | 1-282-44520-0 |
9786612445200 | |
0-472-02441-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825796703321 |
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