Sexing the text : the rhetoric of sexual difference in British literature, 1700-1750

Parker, Todd C. 1965- (Author).

Summary: Throughout, Parker offers readings of a variety of texts, including the fiercely homophobic pamphlet Onania; or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, Jonathan Swift's political satires on William Wood and Richard Tighe, Alexander Pope's poems To Cobham and To a Lady, Eliza Haywood's romance novel Philidore and Placentia, and John Cleland's pornographic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."--Jacket

Record details

ISBN: 0791444956
ISBN: 0791444864
ISBN: 0791444856
ISBN: 9780585276113
ISBN: 0585276110
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 218 pages)
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Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: Sexuality and the "Natural" Subject of the Early Eighteenth Century 1 -- 1 Onania: Self-Pollution and the Danger of Female Sexuality 31 -- 2 Swift and the Political Anus 49 -- 3 Pope's To Cobham and To a Lady: Empiricism and the Synecdochic Woman 81 -- 4 Haywood's Philidore and Placentia, or What the Eunuch Lost 119 -- 5 Reading the Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 135.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.