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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II