Sexual privatism in British romantic writing : a public of one
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Sexual privatism in British romantic writing : a public of one
（Routledge studies in romanticism, 29）
Routledge, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The Romantic age, though often associated with free erotic expression, was ambivalent about what if anything sex had to do with the public sphere. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British texts often repressed the very sexual energies they claimed to be bringing into the open. The delineation of what could and could not be said and done in the name of physical pleasure was of a piece with the capitalist consecration of the social trust to the individual profit-motive. Both these practices, moreover, presupposed a determinate self with sovereignty over its own interests. Writings from and about some nominally public institutions were thus characterized by privatism-a sexual, economic and ontological withdrawal from otherness.
Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One explores how this threefold ideology was both propagated and resisted, wittingly and unwittingly, successfully and unsuccessfully, in such Romantic "publics" as rape-law, sodomy-law, adultery-law, high-profile scandals, the population debates, and club-culture. It includes readings of imaginative literature by William Beckford, William Blake, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Hays, Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft; works of political economy by Jeremy Bentham, William Cobbett, William Godwin, William Hazlitt and Thomas Robert Malthus; as well as contemporary legal treatises, popular journalism and satirical pamphlets.
目次
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: The Law of Rape
Chapter Two: Homo Economicus
Chapter Three: Tortious Conversations
Chapter Four: In the Pigsty
Chapter Five: Malthusian Husbandries
Chapter Six: Love among the Ruins
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