Heteronormativity in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

ISBN-13: 9780367880118 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Ana De Freitas Boe; Abby Coykendall

Opis

Understanding heteronormativity is imperative for understanding the culture of the eighteenth century writ large, as well as the imaginaries of sex and sexuality that it bequeaths to the present. This collection foregrounds British, European, and transatlantic heteronormativities to pose vital, if vexing, questions about the degree of continuity su

Spis treści

Of closed doors and open hatches: heteronormative plots in 18th-century (women's) studies.  Conjugal capitalism: the domestication of public space.  Marriage, sexuality, and the meaning of the wedding night in 18th-century France.  John Wilkes's 'Closet': hetero privacy and the annotation of desire in An Essay on Woman.  Monstrous gallantry: protective masculinity in the 1790s.  Queer counterhistory and the specter of effeminacy.  The failure of heteronormativity in the gothic novel.  John Gabriel Stedman, heteronormativity, and white men's gender trouble.  Teaching 18th-century literature in a transgendered classroom.

 

O autorze

Ana de Freitas Boe is Associate Professor of English Literature at Baldwin Wallace University, USA, and Abby Coykendall is Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, USA.