Excitable imaginations : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 /
Lubey, Kathleen,1975-
Lewisburg, Md. : Bucknell University Press : Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
c2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Erotic literature, English
English literature
English literature
Eroticism in literature.
Sex in literature.
Imagination in literature.
Literature and morals.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)