Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature

Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature /

Examines how writers of 18th century English sentimental literature came to consider love between a husband and wife to be A (or possibly THE) source for sympathy and benevolence, removing those experiencing it from the self-centeredness of current philosophical and economic theory. Homosexual desir...

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Main Author: Kelleher, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, 2015
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Love in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Heterosexuality, or, A problem in modern ethics
  • Shaftesbury and the beauty of virtue
  • Love within reason: Addison and Steele among the mollies
  • Love in excess and the ecstasy of sympathy
  • Pamela and the passion for virtue
  • Tom Jones and the virtues of sexuality.

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