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Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sigler, David, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sex > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Sex > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Psychoanalysis in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The literary gender debates and their relation to the unconscious
  • "It is unaccountable": anxiety and the cause of desire in Pride and Prejudice
  • Dead faith and contraband goods: Joanna Southcott and the logic of sexuation
  • Brotherly love and two masquerades in Mary Robinson's Walsingham
  • Masochism and psychoanalysis in Zofloya, or the Moor
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley's Zastrozzi and the psychoanalytic act
  • Conclusion: Woman: as she is, and as she should be
  • Notes
  • Index.