Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367867164 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 314 str.

Jolene Zigarovich

Opis

This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and historical relations,

Spis treści

Foreword Regina Barreca Introduction Jolene Zigarovich Part I. Marriage and Grave Plots 1. The Wages of Sanctity: Fatal Consequences of Marriage and Motherhood in the Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novel Ruth Bienstock Anolik 2. Corkscrews and Courtesans: Sex and Death in Circulation Novels Bonnie Blackwell 3. Courting Death: Necrophilia in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa Jolene Zigarovich 4. Venus Dissected: The Visual Blazon of Mid-18th Century Medical Atlases Marcia Nichols Part II. Sexual and Mortal Fantasies 5. The Temptation of Alexander Pope: Materialism and Sexual Fantasy in ‘Eloisa to Abelard’ James Steintrager 6. Trading Sex for Secrets in Eliza Haywood’s Love in Excess Scott Black 7. Sex, Madness, and Suicide in Sir Herbert Croft’s Love and Madness Maximillian Novak 8. Erotic Death Machines: Sex and Execution in James Boswell’s Writing Katherine Ellison Part III. Gothic Difference 9. Between Life and Death: Representing Necrophilia, Medicine, and the Figure of the Intercessor in M.G. Lewis’s The Monk Laura Miller 10. 'Out of Tune:' Sex, Death, and Gothic Disharmony in Eighteenth-Century Scotland Hamish Mathison 11. Psychodrama: Hypertheatricality and Sexual Excess on the Gothic Stage George E. Haggerty 12. Sex, Sodomy and Death Sentences in the Long Eighteenth Century Ian McCormick Afterword Jolene Zigarovich

O autorze

Jolene Zigarovich is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Claremont Graduate University, US.