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Author:

Kelleher, Paul, 1972- author.

Title:

Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature / Paul Kelleher.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Love in literature.
Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.
English literature.
Literature and society.
Love in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Literatur.
Liebe.
Erotik.
Moral.
Empfindsamkeit.
1700 - 1799
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Heterosexuality, or, A problem in modern ethics -- Shaftesbury and the beauty of virtue -- Love within reason: Addison and Steele among the mollies -- Love in excess and the ecstasy of sympathy -- Pamela and the passion for virtue -- Tom Jones and the virtues of sexuality.

Summary:

Examines how writers of 18th century English sentimental literature came to consider love between a husband and wife to be A (or possibly THE) source for sympathy and benevolence, removing those experiencing it from the self-centeredness of current philosophical and economic theory. Homosexual desire, therefore for these writers came to be considered as a barrier to attaining sympathy, sentiment, and benevolence.

Series:

Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850

ISBN:

1611486939
9781611486933

OCLC:

(OCoLC)903675138

LCCN:

2015007834

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)