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Lewd And Notorious : Female Transgression In The Eighteenth Century.
Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Michigan Press
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction
- Contexts for the Consideration of the Transgressive Antitype; Part I
- Transgressive Words; 1
- "Queer to Queer": The Sapphic Body as Transgressive Text; 2
- Claiming the "Sacred Mantle": The Memoirs of Lætitia Pilkington; 3
- Elizabeth Carter's Self-Pun-ishment: Puns, Pedantry, and Polite Learning; Part II
- Transgressive Images; 4
- A Carnival of Mirrors: The Grotesque Body of the Eighteenth-Century British Masquerade; 5
- Lustful Widows and Old Maids in Late Eighteenth-Century English Caricatures; 6
- Sensibility and Speculation: Emma Hamilton.
- Part III
- Transgressive Acts7
- "Every Like Is Not the Same," or Is It?: Gender, Criminal Biographies, and the Politics of Indifference; 8
- Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: Representations of Guilt and Innocence in Legal and Literary Texts, 1753-1989; 9
- A Mistress, a Mother, and a Murderess Too: Elizabeth Brownrigg and the Social Construction of an Eighteenth-Century Mistress; Part IV
- Transgressive Fictions; 10
- Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading; 11
- "A-Killing Their Children with Safety": Maternal Identity and Transgression in Swift and Defoe.
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- Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters: Revolution and Female SexualityAbout the Editor and Contributors; Index.