| Description |
ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion |
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SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion.
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| Contents |
Confessing and editing : the politics of purity in Hardy's Tess / Susan David Berstein -- Gender and sexual dis-ease in Dracula / Jeffrey L. Spear -- "The inner chambers of all nameless sin" : The beetle, gothic female sexuality, and oriental barbarism / Kelly Hurley |
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The virgin body as Victorian text : an introduction / Lloyd Davis -- Virginal sex, vaginal text : the "folds" of Frankenstein / Gerhard Joseph --The reader and the virgin : what next? / L.J. Swingle -- White narratology : gender and reference in Wilkie Collins's The woman in white / Diane Elam -- Representation and repristination : virginity in The ring and the book / Herbert F. Tucker -- Becoming the poet : the feminine poet-speaker in the work of Elizabeth Barret Browning / Dolores DeLuise with Michael Timko -- The frozen fountain : Christina Rosetti, the virgin model, and youthful pre-Raphaelitism / Barbara Garlick -- Like a virgin : Coventry Patmore's still Unknown eros / John Maynard -- What Lily knew : virginity in the 1890s / Adrienne Auslander Munich |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-249) and index |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Sex in literature.
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Virginity in literature.
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Human Body -- in literature
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Literature -- history.
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Literature -- english
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| Author |
Davis, Lloyd, 1959-2005.
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| LC no. |
91045286 |
| ISBN |
0791412830 |
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0791412849 |
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