Excitable imaginations : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / Kathleen Lubey.

  • Lubey, Kathleen, 1975-
Date:
[2012], ©2012
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Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press : Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-266) and index.

Contents

Eroticism and the eighteenth-century imagination -- Imperfect enjoyments: errors of the imagination in Restoration England -- "Too great warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the pleasures of reading -- "Something greatly awful": what sex does in early novels -- Sex as form: the aesthetic pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth -- Coda philosophy's erotic forms.

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    History of Medicine
    TP.AI.AA6-8
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  • 9781611484403
  • 1611484405