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Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Paperback)
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Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
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This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era
that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the
prolific examination of the century's shifting attitudes toward
death and uncovering literary moments in which sexuality and death
often conjoined. By bringing together various viewpoints and
historical relations, the volume contributes to an emerging field
of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which the
century approached an increasingly modern sense of sexuality and
mortality. It not only provides part of the needed discussion of
the relationship between sex, death, history, and
eighteenth-century culture, but is a forum in which the ideas of
several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of
knowledge and a diversity of perspectives and methodologies
previously unseen. As the contributors demonstrate,
eighteenth-century anxieties over mortality, the body, the soul,
and the corpse inspired many writers of the time to both implicitly
and explicitly embed mortality and sexuality within their works. By
depicting the necrophilic tendencies of libertines and rapacious
villains, the fetishizing of death and mourning by virtuous
heroines, or the fantasy of preserving the body, these authors
demonstrate not only the tragic results of sexual play, but the
persistent fantasy of necro-erotica. This book shows that within
the eighteenth-century culture of profound modern change,
underworkings of death and mourning are often eroticized; that sex
is often equated with death (as punishment, or loss of the self);
and that the sex-death dialectic lies at the discursive center of
normative conceptions of gender, desire, and social power.
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