Title Torrid zones : maternity, sexuality, and empire in eighteenth-century English narratives / Felicity A. Nussbaum

Published Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

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Description x, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Parallax : re-visions of culture and society Parallax (Baltimore, Md.) Contents Introduction: England's Other Women -- 1. Torrid Mothers: Domesticating the Erotic -- 2. "Savage" Mothers: Johnson's Life of Savage -- 3. Polygamy, Pamela, and the Prerogative of Empire -- 4. Prostitution, Body Parts, and Sexual Geography -- 5. The Empire of Love: The Veil and the Blush of Romance -- 6. Feminotopias: The Seraglio, the Homoerotic, and the Pleasures of "Deformity" -- 7. "An Affectionate and Voluntary Sacrifice": Sati, Rape, and Marriage -- Epilogue: Whose Enlightenment Is It? Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-253) and index SUBJECT Women & literature http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42026678 -- Great Britain http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79023147 -- Colonies -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012516 -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012474 Subject English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Imperialism in literature. Motherhood in literature. Narration (Rhetoric) Sex in literature. Women and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- Colonies -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Colonies -- Great Britain. LC no. 95011801 ISBN 0801850746 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0801850754 (paperback: acid-free paper)

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