Erotic citizens : sex and the embodied subject in the antebellum novel /
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| Language: | English |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2019.
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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.