Sexual stealing / by Wendy Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Wendy, author.

Contributor:

Temporary Culture (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic literature.

Slavery.

Penn Provenance:

Walker, Wendy (autogaph) (Kislak copy) (Libra Rare copy)

Physical Description:

188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Upper Montclair, NJ : Temporary Culture, 2021.

Notes:

Sexual Stealing is an interrogation of the Gothic, slavery, and sexual exploitation. Where the authors of the first great Gothic novels set their tales in worlds safely distant in time and space from the conventions of late eighteenth-century England, Wendy Walker probes the obsessions and anxieties underlying these works, and dramatizes a tale of forcible taking, the brutal exercise of wealth and power, and the revolution that follows."--Publisher's Web site

Sexual Stealing is a formally innovative interrogation of the Gothic, slavery, and sexual exploitation, written using a simple constraint to extract a secondary, heretofore hidden text from Anne Radcliffe's 1794 novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. Walker probes the obsessions and anxieties underlying the early Gothic novels, and dramatizes a tale of forcible taking, the brutal exercise of wealth and power, and the revolution that follows. She notes, "Sexual Stealing is poetic in that its form reflects its subject; it searches for a way to write the voices that are buried in full view, and subverts available genres to talk about something widely felt and intuited but not discussed."--Publisher's Web site

"Sexual Stealing is published in an edition of one hundred fifty copies: one hundred twenty-five numbered copies signed by the author, and twenty-five lettered copies for the use of the author."--Colophon

Local Notes:

Kislak Collection copy is number 38. Libra Rare copy is number 44.

ISBN:

0996135952

9780996135955

OCLC:

1273710332