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Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature /
This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century's shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ;
10. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The wages of sanctity : fatal consequences of marriage and motherhood in the eighteenth-century gothic novel / Ruth Bienstock Anolik
- Corkscrews and courtesans : sex and death in circulation novels / Bonnie Blackwell
- Courting death : necrophilia in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa / Jolene Zigarovich
- Venus dissected : the visual blazon of mid-18th century medical atlases / Marcia Nichols
- The temptation of Alexander Pope : materialism and sexual fantasy in Eloisa to Abelard / James Steintrager
- Trading sex for secrets in Eliza Haywood's Love in excess / Scott Black
- Sex, madness and suicide in sir herbert croft's love and madness / Maximillian Novak
- Erotic death machines : sex and execution in James Boswell's writing / Katherine Ellison
- Between life and death : representing necrophilia, medicine, and the figure of the intercessor in M.G. Lewis's The monk / Laura Miller
- Out of tune : sex, death, and gothic disharmony in eighteenth-century Scotland / Hamish Mathison
- Psychodrama : hypertheatricality and sexual excess on the gothic stage / George E. Haggerty
- Sex, sodomy, and death sentences in the long eighteenth century / Ian McCormick.