Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

The literary virgin is eighteenth-century England's most enduring and unlikely celebrity. Despite her ignominious association with Catholicism and her incorrigibility with respect to the methods of the new science, the virgin emerges, by the middle of the eighteenth century, as the triumphant heroine of sentimental fiction as well as a muse for both satire and pornography. This book explores how and why the virgin turns out to be such a highly contested character at the center of many enlightenment debates. By focusing on the figure and fate of the virgin, the book offers new arguments about the relationship of novelist epistemologies to other modes of knowing, about the significance of virginity to patriarchy, and about the feminization of the novel.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	C. Harol
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	239
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-7494-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4039-7494-2
Barcode:	9781403974945

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