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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

Paul Kelleher is associate professor of English at Emory University.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Paul Kelleher
• Editore: Bucknell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 07.09.2017
• EAN: 9781611486957
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-695-7
• Pagine: 270
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 443 g
• Serie: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica