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Romantic women's writing and sexual transgression
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- Summary
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Demonstrates how women's writing formed a crucial, if underappreciated, part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic period.
Details
- Creator
- edited by Katheryn Ready and David Sigler
- Format
- Books
- Language
- Undetermined
- Publication
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- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) : illustrations
- ISBNs
- 9781399507646, 1399507648, 9781399507622
- OCLC
- on1423346195
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Feminising Romantic Sexuality, Perverting Feminine Romanticism -- 3. Reorienting Multi-dimensional Sex with Objects in Millenium Hall -- 4. The Necrophilia of Wollstonecraft's 'The Cave of Fancy' -- 5. Sexual Violence, Sexual Transgression and the Law in Mary Hays's The Victim of Prejudice -- 6. 'Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn': Barbauld, Masturbation and the Novel
- 7. Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley's Mathilda -- 8. 'Our Dire Transgression': Mary Diana Dods in the Biblical Sense -- 9. George Sand, Indiana and the Transgressive Work of Idealism -- 10. Emily Brontë's Shelleyan Poetics of Sexual Ambivalence -- 11. Primroses in the Porridge: Hareton Earnshaw's Transgression against his Homosocial Family in Wuthering Heights -- Index