1st Edition

Luxurious Sexualities Textual Practice Volume 11 Issue 3

Edited By Jean Howard, Alan Sinfield, Lindsay Smith Copyright 1998
    210 Pages
    by Routledge

    210 Pages
    by Routledge

    Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eighteenth century sexuality it is intriguing, controversial and provoking.
    Textual Practice contains articles relating to women, popular culture, visual media, and ethnic and sexual minorities.

    Luxury and Virtue: the breast and the political imaginary - Sue Wiseman; Gibbon and Sex Brian Young; Intriguing Jewellery: royal bodies and scandalous consumption in late eighteenth-century France and England - Marcia Pointon; An Effeminate or an Efficient Nation? Masculinity in eighteenth century social commentary - Philip Carter; Sodomy, Masturbation and the Body Politic in the Eighteenth Century - Cath Sharrock; Notes on The Camp: military effeminacy in late eighteenth century Britain - Robert Jones; Locating the Macaroni: luxury, sexuality and vision in Vauxhall Gardens - Miles Ogborn

    Biography

    Howard, Jean; Sinfield, Alan; Smith, Lindsay