Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Informationen zum Autor CORINNE HAROL is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies, USA. She was born in Boston, holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and now resides in both Edmonton, Alberta, and Santa Monica, California, USA. Klappentext Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory. Zusammenfassung Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing! it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science! religion! and feminist theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela's Virginity Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Conclusion: Clarissa's Exceptional Infertility

List of contents

Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela's Virginity Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Conclusion: Clarissa's Exceptional Infertility

Product details

• Authors: C Harol, C. Harol, Corinne Harol, Corrinne Harol
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.2006
• EAN: 9781403974945
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7494-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Fiction, Christianity, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, European Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Fiction Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, English literature;history of literature;novel