Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature

Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature PDF Author: Warren Chernaik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521464970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Sexual freedom and ideology explored in the works of seventeenth-century English literature.

The rebel in your arms : sexual freedom in restoration literature

The rebel in your arms : sexual freedom in restoration literature PDF Author: Warren L. Chernaik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780710806598
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description


Lord Rochester in the Restoration World

Lord Rochester in the Restoration World PDF Author: Matthew C. Augustine
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107064392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Essays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

Eighteenth Century English Literature

Eighteenth Century English Literature PDF Author: Charlotte Sussman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745637205
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325

Book Description
This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and forms - including urbanization, colonial, and mercantile expansion, the emergence of the "public sphere," and changes in sex and gender roles. In eighteenth-century Britain, many of the things we take for granted about modern life were shockingly new: women appeared for the first time on stage; the novel began to dominate the literary marketplace; people entertained the possibility that all human beings were created equal, and tentatively proposed that reason could triumph over superstition; ministers became more powerful than kings, and the consumer emerged as a political force. Eighteenth-Century English Literature: 1660-1789 explores these issues in relation to well-known works by such authors as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Gray, and Sterne, while also bringing attention to less familiar figures, such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Leapor, and Olaudah Equiano. It offers both an ideal introduction for students and a fresh approach for those with research interests in the period.

A Companion to Restoration Drama

A Companion to Restoration Drama PDF Author: Susan J. Owen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9781405176101
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
This Companion illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryden and Behn

Writing Lives

Writing Lives PDF Author: Kevin Sharpe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199217017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions.

The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature

The Baroque in English Neoclassical Literature PDF Author: John Douglas Canfield
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
In this study, J. Douglas Canfield contends that baroque disruption persists even as English literature becomes more neoclassical. It twists forms and meanings. From paradoxical, mysterious moments in Paradise Lost, amazing metaphorics in Cavendish and Philips, momentous materializations in Waller and Dorset, and revealing displacements in Buckingham and Rochester to outrageous attack in Dryden and Pope, astonishing ventriloquizing in Killigrew and Finch and Montagu, and eccentricity and grotesquerie in Gulliver's Travels - the baroque comes back to disturb neoclassical regularity.--BOOK JACKET.

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn

The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn PDF Author: Derek Hughes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521527200
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister and Oroonoko, the first English novel set in America. Behn's work straddles the genres: beside drama and fiction, she also excelled in poetry and she made several important translations from French libertine and scientific works. This Companion discusses and introduces her writings in all these fields and provides the critical tools with which to judge their aesthetic and historical importance. It also includes a full bibliography, a detailed chronology and a description of the known facts of her life. The Companion will be an essential tool for the study of this increasingly important writer and thinker.

Imagining Sex

Imagining Sex PDF Author: Sarah Toulalan
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191526150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books, and pamphlets) as well as poetry, drama and more specialised medical books. The book analyses representations of sex, sexuality and eroticism in historical context to explore contemporary thinking about these issues, but also about broader cultural concerns and shifts in attitudes. It questions both modern feminist and psychoanalytical interpretations of pornography, arguing that these approaches are neither appropriate nor helpful to an understanding of seventeenth-century material. Through discussions of sex and reproduction, homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, and humour, the book explores the nature of early modern sexual desire and arousal and explores their relationship to contemporary understandings about how the body worked. Imagining Sex presents a radically new interpretation of pornography in this period, arguing that concerns about fertility were at the heart of representations of bodies and sex, so that images of pleasure were entwined with ideas about conception and reproduction. It also shows that these texts legitimized the (sexual) pleasure of the reader by highlighting the pleasure of looking and the incitement to sexual action that it provided.

Engines of the Imagination

Engines of the Imagination PDF Author: Jonathan Sawday
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134267932
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
Challenging the artificial divide between technological studies and cultural history, Engines of the Imagination traces the story of the imaginative encounter with machines and machinery in the European Renaissance.