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Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature / by C. Harol.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harol, Corrinne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fiction.
- Sex.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- European literature.
- Christianity.
- Fiction Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Literary History.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- European Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Fiction Literature.
- Gender Studies.
- Literary History.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- European Literature.
- Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy
- Chapter 1 Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies
- Chapter 2 The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity
- Chapter 3 Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity
- Chapter 4 Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary
- Chapter 5 Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela's Virginity
- Chapter 6 Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- Conclusion: Clarissa's Exceptional Infertility
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index.
- Notes:
- Originally published as the author's thesis (doctoral-Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles) under the title: Novel virgins.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-221) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611365851
- 9781281365859
- 1281365858
- 9781403983657
- 1403983658
- OCLC:
- 560470120
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