Making Love - Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Heterosexuality; or, A Problem in Modern Ethics
Chapter 1: Shaftesbury and the Beauty of Virtue
Chapter 2: Love Within Reason: Addison and Steele Among the Mollies
Chapter 3: Love in Excess and the Ecstasy of Sympathy
Chapter 4: Pamela and the Passion for Virtue
Chapter 5: Tom Jones and the Virtues of Sexuality
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Paul Kelleher is associate professor of English at Emory University.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Kelleher
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781611486957
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-695-7
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 443 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama