| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Transits : literature, thought & culture
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Erotic literature, English -- History and criticism.
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Erotic literature, English. |
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
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Eroticism in literature.
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Eroticism in literature. |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Imagination in literature.
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Imagination in literature. |
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Literature and morals.
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Literature and morals. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| Chronological Term |
1500-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lubey, Kathleen, 1975- Excitable imaginations. Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press : Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012 9781611484403 (DLC) 2012023169 (OCoLC)796001940 |
| ISBN |
9781611484410 (electronic book) |
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1611484413 (electronic book) |
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9781299356542 (MyiLibrary) |
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1299356540 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781611484403 |
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1611484405 |
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