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Description

1. viii, 279 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. Debates about gender in the British Romantic period often invoked the idea of sexual enjoyment: there was a broad cultural concern about jouissance, the all-engulfing pleasure pertaining to sexual gratification. On one hand, these debates made possible the modern psychological concept of the unconscious - since desire was seen as an uncontrollable force, the unconscious became the repository of disavowed enjoyment and the reason for sexual difference. On the other hand, the tighter regulation of sexual enjoyment made possible a vast expansion of the limits of imaginable sexuality. In Sexual Enjoyment and British Romanticism, David Sigler shows how literary writers could resist narrowing gender categories by imagining unregulated enjoyment. As some of the era's most prominent thinkers - including Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, Joanna Southcott, Charlotte Dacre, Jane Austen, and Percy Bysshe Shelley - struggled to understand sexual enjoyment, they were able to devise new pleasures in a time of narrowing sexual possibilities. Placing Romantic-era literature in conversation with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism reveals the fictive structure of modern sexuality, makes visible the diversity of sexual identities from the period, and offers a new understanding of gender in British Romanticism. -- Provided by publisher.

Subject

1. Sex
2. Romanticism
3. English literature
4. 1700-talet
5. 1800-talet
6. Sex > Great Britain > History > 18th century
7. Sexualitet i litteraturen
8. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
9. Criticism, interpretation, etc
10. Psychoanalysis in literature
11. Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 19th century
12. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
13. History
14. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822
15. Sex (Psychology) in literature
16. Romanticism > Great Britain > History > 18th century
17. Engelsk litteratur > historia
18. Southcott, Joanna, 1750-1814
19. Great Britain
20. Romantiken
21. Robinson, Mary (Mary Darby), 1758-1800
22. Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
23. Sex > Great Britain > History > 19th century
24. Dacre, Charlotte, pseud van Charlotte King, approximately 1771-1825
25. 1700-1899
26. Burke, Edmund, 1730-1797
27. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. Introduction -- The literary gender debates and their relation to the unconscious -- "It is unaccountable": anxiety and the cause of desire in Pride and Prejudice -- Dead faith and contraband goods: Joanna Southcott and the logic of sexuation -- Brotherly love and two masquerades in Mary Robinson's Walsingham -- Masochism and psychoanalysis in Zofloya, or the Moor -- Percy Bysshe Shelley's Zastrozzi and the psychoanalytic act -- Conclusion: Woman: as she is, and as she should be -- Notes -- Index.

Call number

1. JFE 16-6606

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Author

1. Sigler, David, 1977- author.

Title

1. Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835 / David Sigler.

Publisher

1. Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological term

1. 1700-1899
2. 1700-talet
3. 1800-talet

Other form:

1. Sigler, David, 1977-, author. Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism. (CaOONL)20149068549

ISBN

1. 9780773545090 (bound)
2. 0773545093 (bound)
3. 9780773545106 (pbk.)
4. 0773545107 (pbk.)
5. 9780773597044 (ePDF)
6. 0773597042 (ePDF)
7. 9780773597051 (ePUB)
8. 0773597050 (ePUB)

Research call number

1. JFE 16-6606