Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture

(Book #3 in the Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Series)

by Karen Harvey

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Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in historical context, Harvey provides a thoroughgoing critique of the orthodoxy of work on sexual difference in the history of the body. She argues that eighteenth-century English erotic culture combined a distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the form...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521055725

ISBN13:9780521055727

Release Date:August 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.89 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

England English Literature Europe History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture

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