Erotic citizens : sex and the embodied subject in the antebellum novel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dill, Elizabeth (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Sexual Ruin and the Early American Novel
  • The Aesthetic Work of the Ruin Narrative
  • Ruin's Subject in Shaftesbury's Characteristicks
  • Incest and the Nature of Ruin in the Novels of William Hill Brown
  • Seduction and the Patriotism of Ruin in Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette
  • Ruin, Martyrdom, and the Spectacle of Sympathy from Clotelto The Scarlet Letter
  • Ruin, Rape, and the Aesthetic Work of Clarissa in England and America
  • Conclusion: The Anatomy of Ruin.