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Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835 /

Debates about gender in the British Romantic period often invoked the idea of sexual enjoyment: there was a broad cultural concern about jouissance, the all-engulfing pleasure pertaining to sexual gratification. On one hand, these debates made possible the modern psychological concept of the unconsc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sigler, David, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The literary gender debates and their relation to the unconscious
  • "It is unaccountable" : anxiety and the cause of desire in Pride and Prejudice
  • Dead faith and contraband goods : Joanna Southcott and the logic of sexuation
  • Brotherly love and two masquerades in Mary Robinson's Walsingham
  • Masochism and psychoanalysis in Zofloya, or the Moor
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley's Zastrozzi and the psychoanalytic act
  • Conclusion: Woman : as she is, and as she should be
  • Notes
  • Index.