Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature
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Making love : sentiment and sexuality in eighteenth-century British literature
（Transits : literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850）
Bucknell University Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In Making Love: Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Paul Kelleher revises the history of sexuality from the vantage point of the literary history of sentimentalism. Kelleher demonstrates how eighteenth-century British philosophers, essayists, and novelists fundamentally reconceived the relations among sentiment, sexuality, and moral virtue. It is his contention that sentimental discourse, both philosophical and literary, posited heterosexual desire as the precondition of moral feeling and conduct. The author further suggests that sentimental writers fashioned the ideal of conjugal love as an ideological antidote to the theories of self-love and self-interest found in the works of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Mandeville. Heterosexual desire and its culmination in conjugal love, in other words, were represented as the privileged means for an individual to transcend self-love and to develop a moral sensibility attuned to the thoughts and feelings of others. At the same time, Kelleher suggests, other pleasures and desires-particularly those rooted in same-sex eroticism-were increasingly depicted as antithetical to conjugal love and, thus, were morally devalued and socially disenfranchised. Kelleher's argument unfolds through close readings of a variety of texts, including Shaftesbury's Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele's the Tatler and the Spectator, Eliza Haywood's Love in Excess, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, and Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. Although these texts embody diverse rhetorical strategies and thematic concerns, he shows how they collectively reinforce an overarching sentimental ideology: on the one hand, heterosexual desire and conjugal love become synonymous with sympathy, benevolence, and moral goodness, while on the other hand, same-sex desire is pathologized as a selfish withdrawal from procreation, domesticity, sociability, and ultimately, "humanity" itself.
目次
- Acknowledgments Introduction: Heterosexuality
- or, A Problem in Modern Ethics Chapter 1: Shaftesbury and the Beauty of Virtue Chapter 2: Love Within Reason: Addison and Steele Among the Mollies Chapter 3: Love in Excess and the Ecstasy of Sympathy Chapter 4: Pamela and the Passion for Virtue Chapter 5: Tom Jones and the Virtues of Sexuality Afterword Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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