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Title:

Sex and death in eighteenth-century literature / edited by Jolene Zigarovich.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Death in literature.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Zigarovich, Jolene, 1970- editor of compilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The wages of sanctity : fatal consequences of marriage and motherhood in the eighteenth-century gothic novel / Ruth Bienstock Anolik -- Corkscrews and courtesans : sex and death in circulation novels / Bonnie Blackwell -- Courting death : necrophilia in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa / Jolene Zigarovich -- Venus dissected : the visual blazon of mid-18th century medical atlases / Marcia Nichols -- The temptation of Alexander Pope : materialism and sexual fantasy in Eloisa to Abelard / James Steintrager -- Trading sex for secrets in Eliza Haywood's Love in excess / Scott Black -- Sex, madness and suicide in sir herbert croft's love and madness / Maximillian Novak -- Erotic death machines : sex and execution in James Boswell's writing / Katherine Ellison -- Between life and death : representing necrophilia, medicine, and the figure of the intercessor in M.G. Lewis's The monk / Laura Miller -- Out of tune : sex, death, and gothic disharmony in eighteenth-century Scotland / Hamish Mathison -- Psychodrama : hypertheatricality and sexual excess on the gothic stage / George E. Haggerty -- Sex, sodomy, and death sentences in the long eighteenth century / Ian McCormick.

Series:

Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ; 10

ISBN:

0415640032
9780415640039

OCLC:

(OCoLC)828263433

LCCN:

2012049310

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)