Title Sexing the text : the rhetoric of sexual difference in British literature, 1700-1750 / Todd C. Parker

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 218 pages) Contents Introduction: Sexuality and the "Natural" Subject of the Early Eighteenth Century 1 -- 1 Onania: Self-Pollution and the Danger of Female Sexuality 31 -- 2 Swift and the Political Anus 49 -- 3 Pope's To Cobham and To a Lady: Empiricism and the Synecdochic Woman 81 -- 4 Haywood's Philidore and Placentia, or What the Eunuch Lost 119 -- 5 Reading the Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 135 Summary "A contribution to the study of the history of sexuality, this book examines the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in the early eighteenth century, a rhetoric that ultimately displaced earlier and more diverse expressions of sexuality and the body. Drawing on traditional scholarly methods as well as recent queer-theoretical perspectives, the book traces the rise of the modern paradigm of compulsory heterosexuality, and counters certain feminist assumptions about the nature of "masculinity" and "male character" during the period Throughout, Parker offers readings of a variety of texts, including the fiercely homophobic pamphlet Onania; or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, Jonathan Swift's political satires on William Wood and Richard Tighe, Alexander Pope's poems To Cobham and To a Lady, Eliza Haywood's romance novel Philidore and Placentia, and John Cleland's pornographic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index Notes English Print version record Subject English literature -- History and criticism. Sex differences (Psychology) in literature. English language -- Rhetoric. Sex differences in literature. Human body in literature. Masculinity in literature. Femininity in literature. Sex role in literature. Sex in literature. Exposition (Rhetoric) LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Exposition (Rhetoric) English language -- Rhetoric English literature Femininity in literature Human body in literature Masculinity in literature Sex differences in literature Sex differences (Psychology) in literature Sex in literature Sex role in literature English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 99056707 ISBN 0585276110 9780585276113

Other Titles Rhetoric of sexual difference in British literature, 1700-1750

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