Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature

This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.

List of contents

1. Eros and Literature Bradford K. Mudge; 2. Classical Antiquity and Modern Erotic Literature Daniel Orrells; 3. Performances of Suffering: Secular and Devotional Eros in Late Medieval Writing Sarah Salih; 4. Can a Woman Rape a Man?: Rape and the Erotic in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis Elizabeth Robertson; 5. The Manuscript Circulation of Erotic Poetry in Early Modern England Ian Moulton; 6. The Erotic Renaissance James Grantham Turner; 7. Pornography, Procreation and Pleasure in Early Modern England Sarah Toulalan; 8. Novel Pleasure Bradford K. Mudge; 9. Erotic for Whom?: When Particular Bodies Matter to Romantic Sexuality Richard Sha; 10. Emily Dickinson in Love (With Death) Marianne Noble; 11. Erotic Bonds Among Women in Victorian Literature Deborah Lutz; 12. Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enfer Collection, and Modernist Eroto-Bibliography Collette Colligan; 13. Sade, Reage, and Transcending the Obscene Amy Wyngaard; 14. 'Nothing could stop it now!': Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer, and the Intersections of Desire David Greven; 15. Dutch Gay Novels of the 1960s and 1970s Gert Hekma.

About the author

Bradford K. Mudge is the author of Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter (1989) and The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684–1830 (2000); and the editor of British Romantic Novelists, 1789–1832 (1992) and When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature (2004). In addition, he has published numerous essays on eighteenth-century English art and literature.

Summary

This book is for students of literature who would like an introduction to the study of erotic texts. In fifteen different chapters, it explores key topics from a variety of national literatures, from antiquity to the present. Each chapter is written by an expert in the field who presents a representative problem from the research.

Product details

• Authors: Bradford Mudge, Bradford K. Mudge, Bradford K. (University of Colorado Mudge, Bradford Keyes (University of Colorado Mudge
• Assisted by: Bradford Mudge (Editor), Bradford K Mudge (Editor), Bradford K. Mudge (Editor), Bradford K. (University of Colorado Mudge (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781316635339
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63533-9
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers