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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Potent polygamists and chaste monogamists
- Polygamy according to fiction and prescriptive models
- Shrews and jealousy in seventeenth and eighteenth-century vernacular fiction
- The self-containing man: the miser and ascetic
- The chaste "beauty-scholar" romance and the superiority of the talented woman
- The erotic scholar-beauty romance
- A case for Confucian sexuality: chaste polygamy in Yesou Puyan
- Polygyny, crossing of gender, and the superiority of women in Honglou Meng
- The overly virtuous wife and the wastrel polygamist in Lin Lan Xiang
- The spoiled son and the doting mother in Qilu Deng
- The other scholar and beauty: the wastrel and the prostitute in Lüye Xianzong
- The benevolent polygamist and the domestication of sexual pleasure in Shenlou Zhi
- Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan as antidote to Honglou Meng
- Promiscuous polygyny and male self-critique
- Glossary of Chinese characters.