Excitable Imaginations - Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660-1760

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.

List of contents

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Eroticism and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
Chapter 1
Imperfect Enjoyments: Errors of the Imagination in Restoration England
Chapter 2
"Too great Warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the Pleasures of Reading
Chapter 3
"Something greatly awful": What Sex Does in Early Novels
Chapter 4
Sex as Form: The Aesthetic Pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth
Coda
Philosophy's Erotic Forms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Kathleen Lubey is associate professor of English at St. John's University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kathleen Lubey
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2012
• EAN: 9781611484403
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-440-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies