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

Author
Lubey, Kathleen, 1975-
Published
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages).
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Language Note
English.
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.
Summary
Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain.
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ISBN
9781611484410 (ebook)
1611484413
9781299356542 (MyiLibrary)
1299356540 (MyiLibrary)
9781611484403 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1611484405
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index.
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