Lewd & notorious : female transgression in the eighteenth century / edited by Katharine Kittredge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kittredge, Katharine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Women and literature.

English literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

Difference (Psychology) in literature.

Deviant behavior in literature.

Female offenders in literature.

Conduct of life in literature.

Dissenters in literature.

Outsiders in literature.

Lesbians in literature.

Women in literature.

Crime in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction - Contexts for the Consideration of the Transgressive Antitype

Part I - Transgressive Words

1 - "Queer to Queer": The Sapphic Body as Transgressive Text

2 - Claiming the "Sacred Mantle": The Memoirs of Lætitia Pilkington

3 - Elizabeth Carter's Self-Pun-ishment: Puns, Pedantry, and Polite Learning

Part II - Transgressive Images

4 - A Carnival of Mirrors: The Grotesque Body of the Eighteenth-Century British Masquerade

5 - Lustful Widows and Old Maids in Late Eighteenth-Century English Caricatures

6 - Sensibility and Speculation: Emma Hamilton

Part III - Transgressive Acts

7 - "Every Like Is Not the Same," or Is It?: Gender, Criminal Biographies, and the Politics of Indifference

8 - Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: Representations of Guilt and Innocence in Legal and Literary Texts, 1753-1989

9 - A Mistress, a Mother, and a Murderess Too: Elizabeth Brownrigg and the Social Construction of an Eighteenth-Century Mistress

Part IV - Transgressive Fictions

10 - Eliza Haywood, Sapphic Desire, and the Practice of Reading

11 - "A-Killing Their Children with Safety": Maternal Identity and Transgression in Swift and Defoe

12 - Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters: Revolution and Female Sexuality

About the Editor and Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-44520-0

9786612445200

0-472-02441-8

OCLC:

587706301