Excitable imaginations
Subtitle: eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760
By: Kathleen Lubey
Series: Transits : literature, thought & culture
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781611484403
Subjects: Literature and morals; English literature; History and criticism; English Erotic literature; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Eroticism in literature; Imagination in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Eroticism and the eighteenth-century imagination; title: Imperfect enjoyments: errors of the imagination in Restoration England; title: "Too great warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the pleasures of reading; title: "Something greatly awful": what sex does in early novels; title: Sex as form: the aesthetic pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth; title: Coda philosophy's erotic forms.