Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture |
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| Author:
| Harvey, Karen |
| Series title: | Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-82235-0 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2005 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $118.00 |
Book Description:
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Karen Harvey provides a critique of the orthodoxy of recent work on sexual difference in the history of the body. She argues that eighteenth-century English erotic culture combined a distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the form of refinement was applied to the matter of sex.
Karen Harvey provides a critique of the orthodoxy of recent work on sexual difference in the history of the body. She argues that eighteenth-century English erotic culture combined a distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the form of refinement was applied to the matter of sex.