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Title:

Lewd & notorious : female transgression in the eighteenth century / edited by Katharine Kittredge.

Publisher:

University of Michigan Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

viii, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Deviant behavior in literature.
Female offenders in literature.
Conduct of life in literature.
Dissenters in literature.
Outsiders in literature.
Lesbians in literature.
Women in literature.
Crime in literature.

Other Authors:

Kittredge, Katharine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Queer to queer": the Sapphic body as transgressive text / Susan L. Lanser -- Claiming the "sacred mantle": The memoirs of Lt̆itia Pilkington / Susan Goulding -- Elizabeth Carter's self-pun-ishment: puns, pedantry, and polite learning / Juliet Feibel -- A Carnival of Mirrors / The grotesque body of the eighteenth century British Masquerade / Elizabeth Hunt -- Lustful windows and old maids in late eighteenth-century English caricatures / Cindy McCreery -- Sensibility and speculation: Emma Hamilton / Betsy Bolton -- "Every like is not the same," or is it?: gender, criminal biographies, and the politics of indifference / Jessica Kimball Printz -- Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: representations of guilt and innocence in legal and literary texts, 1753-1989 / Judith Moore -- A mistress, a mother, and a murderess too: Elizabeth Brownrigg and the social construction of an eighteenth-century mistress / Patty Seleski -- Eliza Haywood, Sapphic desire, and the practice of reading / Catherine Ingrassia -- "A-killing their children with safety": maternal identity and transgression in Swift and Defoe / Marilyn Francus -- Ruined women and illegitimate daughters: revolution and female sexuality / Julie Shaffer.

ISBN:

9780472089062 (paper : alk. paper)
0472089064 (paper : alk. paper)
9780472110902 (cloth : alk. paper)
047211090X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50279957

LCCN:

2002011939

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)