Torrid Zones - Maternity, Sexuality, Empire in Eighteenth Century English

Informationen zum Autor Felicity A. Nussbaum is a professor of English at the University of California-Los Angeles, the author of The Limits of the Human (2003), Torrid Zones (1995), and the editor of The Autobiographical Subject (1995), the latter two available from Johns Hopkins. Klappentext Among the first books to consider issues of empire in relation to literary texts of the eighteenth century! Torrid Zones offers a compelling revision of the history of feminism in a postcolonial context. Felicity Nussbaum argues that the need to control women's sexuality in eighteenth-century England intensified as the demands of trade and colonization required an ever-larger! able-bodied population. Describing how women's reproductive labor was harnessed to that task! Nussbaum explores issues such as the production of life! of goods! and of desire. She also considers a variety of cultural practices (usually construed as exotic) in England and the empire! including polygamy! infanticide! prostitution! homoeroticism! and arranged marriages. Torrid Zones includes new readings of significant texts by and about female subjects! including novels by Defoe! Richardson! Johnson! Cleland! Lennox! Sarah Scott! Frances Sheridan! and Phebe Gibbes. It also considers the more broadly defined texts of culture such as travel narratives! medical documents! legal records! and engravings.

Product details

• Authors: Felicity A. Nussbaum, Nussbaum Felicity A.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1995
• EAN: 9780801850752
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-5075-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur; Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society; Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Fiction > Poetry, drama; England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form