Sex and death in eighteenth-century literature / edited by Jolene Zigarovich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zigarovich, Jolene, 1970- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 10.

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Sex in literature.

Death in literature.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.

Physical Description:

xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2013.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415640039

0415640032

OCLC:

828263433