Author: Alain René Le SagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Devil Upon Crutches
Author: Alain René Le SageThe Devil Upon Crutches
Author: Alain René Le SageThe Devil Upon Crutches
Author: Alain René Le SageTHE DEVIL UPON TWO STICKS
Author: Alain-René LesageCity of Laughter
Author: Vic GatrellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802716024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.
The Devil Upon Two Sticks
Author: Alain René Le SagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Sex among the Rabble
Author: Clare A. LyonsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. By reading popular representations of sex against actual behavior, Lyons reveals the clash of meanings given to sex and illuminates struggles to recast sexuality in order to eliminate its subversive potential. Sexuality became the vehicle for exploring currents of liberty, freedom, and individualism in the politics of everyday life among groups of early Americans typically excluded from formal systems of governance--women, African Americans, and poor classes of whites. Lyons shows that men and women created a vibrant urban pleasure culture, including the eroticization of print culture, as eighteenth-century readers became fascinated with stories of bastardy, prostitution, seduction, and adultery. In the post-Revolutionary reaction, white middle-class men asserted their authority, Lyons argues, by creating a gender system that simultaneously allowed them the liberty of their passions, constrained middle-class women with virtue, and projected licentiousness onto lower-class whites and African Americans. Lyons's analysis shows how class and racial divisions fostered new constructions of sexuality that served as a foundation for gender. This gendering of sexuality in the new nation was integral to reconstituting social hierarchies and subordinating women and African Americans in the wake of the Revolution.
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years:
Author: Richard J. JonesPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1638040826
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721–1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett’s life, writing and reputation on the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.
The Adventures of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses
Author: François de Salignac de La Mothe FénelonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346047
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The first critical edition of Smollett's 1776 translation of Bishop Fénelon's 1699 "Mirror of Princes," one of the most popular and revered works of the eighteenth century, written especially for Duc de Burgogne, heir presumptive to Louis XIV, and meant to teach him the proper way to rule.
Asmodeus; or, The Devil on Two Sticks
Author: Alain René Le SagePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Asmodeus; or, The devil on two sticks is a novel by Alain-René Le Sage. A young man accidentally frees a demon known as Asmodeus, which starts a magical journey beyond normality and bends the mind of the reader.