Erotic citizens : sex and the embodied subject in the antebellum novel /

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"What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? "Erotic Citizens" answers this question by revealing the political workings of extramarital erotic intimacy, when the democratic subject, a figure at the center of the early US republic's nation-building project, is fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dill, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Temas:
1700-1799
Sex in literature.
Sex customs in literature.
American fiction > 18th century > History and criticism.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
Vie sexuelle dans la littérature.
Roman américain > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American fiction
Sex customs in literature
Sex in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Sexual Ruin and the Early American Novel
  • The Aesthetic Work of the Ruin Narrative
  • Ruin's Subject in Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
  • Incest and the Nature of Ruin in the Novels of William Hill Brown
  • Seduction and the Patriotism of Ruin in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
  • Ruin, Martyrdom, and the Spectacle of Sympathy from Clotelto The Scarlet Letter
  • Ruin, Rape, and the Aesthetic Work of Clarissa in England and America
  • Conclusion: The Anatomy of Ruin.

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