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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zigarovich, Jolene, 1970-

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:

1 online resource (652 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century's shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of the relation

Contents:

Cover; Title Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Marriage and Grave Plots; 1 The Wages of Sanctity: Fatal Consequences of Marriage and Motherhood in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel; 2 Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels; 3 Courting Death: Necrophilia in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa; 4 Venus Dissected: The Visual Blazon of Mid-Eighteenth Century Medical Atlases; Part II Sexual and Mortal Fantasies

5 The Temptation of Alexander Pope: Materialism and Sexual Fantasy in 'Eloisa to Abelard'6 Trading Sex for Secrets in Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess; 7 Sex, Madness and Suicide in Sir Herbert Croft's Love and Madness; 8 Erotic Death Machines: Sex and Execution in James Boswell's Writing; Part III Gothic Difference; 9 Between Life and Death: Representing Necrophilia, Medicine, and the Figure of the Intercessor in M.G. Lewis's The Monk; 10 "Out of Tune": Sex, Death, and Gothic Disharmony in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 11 Psychodrama: Hypertheatricality and Sexual Excess on the Gothic Stage

12 Sex, Sodomy, and Death Sentences in the Long Eighteenth CenturyAfterword; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (viewed, ebrary May 25, 2013).

ISBN:

1-136-18236-5

1-136-18237-3

0-203-08295-8

9780203082959

OCLC:

843642534