Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835

Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835 /

Debates about gender in the British Romantic period often invoked the idea of sexual enjoyment: there was a broad cultural concern about jouissance, the all-engulfing pleasure pertaining to sexual gratification. On one hand, these debates made possible the modern psychological concept of the unconsc...

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Main Author: Sigler, David, 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sex > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Sex > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Sex (Psychology) in literature.
Psychoanalysis in literature.
Electronic books.
Academic Dissertation
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The literary gender debates and their relation to the unconscious
  • "It is unaccountable" : anxiety and the cause of desire in Pride and Prejudice
  • Dead faith and contraband goods : Joanna Southcott and the logic of sexuation
  • Brotherly love and two masquerades in Mary Robinson's Walsingham
  • Masochism and psychoanalysis in Zofloya, or the Moor
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley's Zastrozzi and the psychoanalytic act
  • Conclusion: Woman : as she is, and as she should be
  • Notes
  • Index.

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