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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lubey, Kathleen, 1975-

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits : literature, thought & culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic literature, English--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, English.

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

English literature.

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Eroticism in literature.

Sex in literature.

Imagination in literature.

Literature and morals.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Excitable Imaginations; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Eroticism and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination; 1 Imperfect Enjoyments: Errors of the Imagination in Restoration England; 2 "Too Great Warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the Pleasures of Reading; 3 "Something Greatly Awful": What Sex Does in Early Novels; 4 Sex as Form: The Aesthetic Pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth; Coda: Philosophy's Erotic Forms; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-299-35654-0

1-61148-441-3

OCLC:

855502818