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Perverse Romanticism : Aesthetics and Sexuality in Britain, 1750-1832.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (374 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421402611
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Perverse RomanticismDDC classification:
  • 820.9/145
LOC classification:
  • PR468.R65 S53 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Romantic Science and the Perversification of Sexual Pleasure -- 2 Historicizing Perversion: Perversity, Perversion, and the Rise of Function in the Biological Sciences -- 3 One Sex or Two? Nervous Bodies, Romantic Puberty, and the Natural Origins of Perverse Desires -- 4 The Perverse Aesthetics of Romanticism: Purposiveness with Purpose -- 5 Fiery Joys Perverted to Ten Commands: William Blake, the Perverse Turn, and Sexual Liberation -- 6 Byron, Epic Puberty, and Polymorphous Perversity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.
Summary: At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Romantic Science and the Perversification of Sexual Pleasure -- 2 Historicizing Perversion: Perversity, Perversion, and the Rise of Function in the Biological Sciences -- 3 One Sex or Two? Nervous Bodies, Romantic Puberty, and the Natural Origins of Perverse Desires -- 4 The Perverse Aesthetics of Romanticism: Purposiveness with Purpose -- 5 Fiery Joys Perverted to Ten Commands: William Blake, the Perverse Turn, and Sexual Liberation -- 6 Byron, Epic Puberty, and Polymorphous Perversity -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

At the nexus of Kantian aesthetics, literary analysis, and the history of medicine, Perverse Romanticism makes an important contribution to the study of sexuality in the long eighteenth century.

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