Heteronormativity in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Ana de Freitas Boe is Associate Professor of English Literature at Baldwin Wallace University, USA, and Abby Coykendall is Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, USA. Klappentext Understanding heteronormativity is imperative for understanding the culture of the eighteenth century writ large! as well as the imaginaries of sex and sexuality that it bequeaths to the present. This collection foregrounds British! European! and transatlantic heteronormativities to pose vital! if vexing. Zusammenfassung Understanding heteronormativity is imperative for understanding the culture of the eighteenth century writ large, as well as the imaginaries of sex and sexuality that it bequeaths to the present. This collection foregrounds British, European, and transatlantic heteronormativities to pose vital, if vexing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Of closed doors and open hatches: heteronormative plots in 18th-century (women's) studies. Conjugal capitalism: the domestication of public space. Marriage, sexuality, and the meaning of the wedding night in 18th-century France. John Wilkes's 'Closet': hetero privacy and the annotation of desire in An Essay on Woman. Monstrous gallantry: protective masculinity in the 1790s. Queer counterhistory and the specter of effeminacy. The failure of heteronormativity in the gothic novel. John Gabriel Stedman, heteronormativity, and white men's gender trouble. Teaching 18th-century literature in a transgendered classroom.

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• Authors: Ana de Freitas Boe, Ana De Freitas Coykendall Boe, Boe Ana de Freitas, Abby Coykendall, Coykendall Abby
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2014
• EAN: 9781472430175
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3017-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity