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Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 16601760
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Bucknell Univ Pr
Publication date
June 10, 2014
Pages
273
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781611485868
ISBN-10
161148586X
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$39.99
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Excitable Imaginations offers a new approach to the history of pornography. Looking beyond a counter-canon of bawdy literature, Kathleen Lubey identifies a vigilant attentiveness to sex across a wide spectrum of literary and philosophical texts in eighteenth-century Britain. Esteemed public modes of writing such as nationalist poetry, moral fiction, and empirical philosophy, as well as scandalous and obscene writing, persistently narrate erotic experiencesâdesire, voyeurism, seduction, orgasm. The recurring turn to sexuality in literature and philosophy, she argues, allowed authors to recommend with great urgency how the risqué delights of reading might excite the imagination to ever greater degrees of educability on moral and aesthetic matters. Moralists such as Samuel Richardson and Adam Smith, like their licentious counterparts Rochester, Haywood, and Cleland, purposefully evoke salacious fantasy so that their audiences will recognize reading as an intellectual act that is premised on visceral pleasure. Eroticism in texts like Pamela and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, in Lubeyâs reading, did not compete with instructive literary aims, but rather was essential to the construction of the self-governing Enlightenment subject.
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Hardcover
from Bucknell Univ Pr (September 27, 2012); titled "Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660â1760"
9781611484403 | details & prices | 273 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $85.00
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Bucknell Univ Pr (June 10, 2014); titled "Excitable Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain, 1660â1760"
9781611485868 | details & prices | 273 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $39.99
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