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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transits (Bucknell University)Publication details: Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611484410
  • 1611484413
  • 9781299356542
  • 1299356540
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Excitable imaginations.DDC classification:
  • 820.9/3538 23
LOC classification:
  • PR448.E75
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Contents:
Eroticism and the eighteenth-century imagination -- Imperfect enjoyments: errors of the imagination in Restoration England -- "Too great warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the pleasures of reading -- "Something greatly awful": what sex does in early novels -- Sex as form: the aesthetic pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth -- Coda philosophy's erotic forms.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-266) and index.

Eroticism and the eighteenth-century imagination -- Imperfect enjoyments: errors of the imagination in Restoration England -- "Too great warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the pleasures of reading -- "Something greatly awful": what sex does in early novels -- Sex as form: the aesthetic pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth -- Coda philosophy's erotic forms.

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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.

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