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 |
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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 |
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Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Sex differences (Psychology) in literature.
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English language -- Rhetoric.
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Sex differences in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Masculinity in literature.
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Femininity in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Exposition (Rhetoric)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Exposition (Rhetoric)
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English language -- Rhetoric
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English literature
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Femininity in literature
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Human body in literature
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Masculinity in literature
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Sex differences in literature
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Sex differences (Psychology) in literature
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Sex in literature
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Sex role in literature
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English.
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Languages & Literatures.
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English Literature.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
99056707 |
ISBN |
0585276110 |
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9780585276113 |
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