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Title:

Virginal sexuality and textuality in Victorian literature / edited by Lloyd Davis.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

c1993

Description:

ix, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Body, Human, in literature.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism
Sex in literature.
Virginity in literature.

Other Authors:

Davis, Lloyd, 1959-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-249) and index.

Contents:

Confessing and editing : the politics of purity in Hardy's Tess / Susan David Berstein -- Gender and sexual dis-ease in Dracula / Jeffrey L. Spear -- "The inner chambers of all nameless sin" : The beetle, gothic female sexuality, and oriental barbarism / Kelly Hurley.
The virgin body as Victorian text : an introduction / Lloyd Davis -- Virginal sex, vaginal text : the "folds" of Frankenstein / Gerhard Joseph --The reader and the virgin : what next? / L.J. Swingle -- White narratology : gender and reference in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / Diane Elam -- Representation and repristination : virginity in The ring and the book / Herbert F. Tucker -- Becoming the poet : the feminine poet-speaker in the work of Elizabeth Barret Browning / Dolores DeLuise with Michael Timko -- The frozen fountain : Christina Rosetti, the virgin model, and youthful pre-Raphaelitism / Barbara Garlick -- Like a virgin : Coventry Patmore's still Unknown eros / John Maynard -- What Lily knew : virginity in the 1890s / Adrienne Auslander Munich.

Series:

SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion

ISBN:

9780791412848 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
0791412849 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
9780791412831 (alk. paper) :
0791412830 (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)25026236

LCCN:

91045286

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)