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Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists : Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction /
Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers,...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[1995]
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- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Notes on Romanization
- 1. Potent Polygamists and Chaste Monogamists
- 2. Polygamy According to Fiction and Prescriptive Models
- 3. Shrews and Jealousy in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Vernacular Fiction
- 4. The Self-Containing Man: The Miser and the Ascetic
- 5. The Chaste "Beauty-Scholar" Romance and the Superiority of the Talented Woman
- 6. The Erotic Scholar-Beauty Romance
- 7. A Case for Confucian Sexuality: Chaste Polygamy in Yesou Puyan
- 8. Polygyny, Crossing of Gender, and the Superiority of Women in Honglou Meng
- 9. The Overly Virtuous Wife and the Wastrel Polygamist in Lin Lan Xiang
- 10. The Spoiled Son and the Doting Mother in Qilu Deng
- 11. The Other Scholar and Beauty: The Wastrel and the Prostitute in Luye Xianzong
- 12. The Benevolent Polygamist and the Domestication of Sexual Pleasure in Shenlou Zhi
- 13. Emu Yingxiong Zhuan as Antidote to Honglou Meng
- 14. Promiscuous Polygyny and Male Self-Critique
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Glossary of Chinese Characters
- Index