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Excitable imaginations : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / / Kathleen Lubey



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Autore: Lubey Kathleen <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Excitable imaginations : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / / Kathleen Lubey Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press
Lanham, Md., : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/3538
Soggetto topico: Erotic literature, English - History and criticism
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism
Eroticism in literature
Sex in literature
Imagination in literature
Literature and morals
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Excitable Imaginations; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Eroticism and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination; 1 Imperfect Enjoyments: Errors of the Imagination in Restoration England; 2 "Too Great Warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the Pleasures of Reading; 3 "Something Greatly Awful": What Sex Does in Early Novels; 4 Sex as Form: The Aesthetic Pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth; Coda: Philosophy's Erotic Forms; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain.
Titolo autorizzato: Excitable imaginations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-299-35654-0
1-61148-441-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823944903321
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Serie: Transits (Bucknell University)