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Romantic Women’s Writing and Sexual Transgression
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2024
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Women’s writing was a crucial part of the history of sexuality in the Romantic period, yet has not often been seen as part of that history. This collection shows how women writers fit into a tradition of Romanticism that recognizes transgressive sexuality as a defining feature. Building on recent research on the period’s sexual culture, it shows how women writers were theorizing perversions in their literary work and often leading transgressive sexual lives. In doing so, the collection also challenges current understandings of ‘transgression’ as a sexual category.
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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
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Editors’ Acknowledgements
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Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2 Feminising Romantic Sexuality, Perverting Feminine Romanticism
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Chapter 3 Reorienting Multi-dimensional Sex with Objects in Millenium Hall
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Chapter 4 The Necrophilia of Wollstonecraft’s ‘The Cave of Fancy’
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Chapter 5 Sexual Violence, Sexual Transgression and the Law in Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice
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Chapter 6 ‘Thoughts that Breathe and Words that Burn’: Barbauld, Masturbation and the Novel
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Chapter 7 Resistive Embodiment and Incestuous Desire in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda
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Chapter 8 ‘Our Dire Transgression’: Mary Diana Dods in the Biblical Sense
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Chapter 9 George Sand, Indiana and the Transgressive Work of Idealism
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Chapter 10 Emily Brontë’s Shelleyan Poetics of Sexual Ambivalence
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Chapter 11 Primroses in the Porridge: Hareton Earnshaw’s Transgression against his Homosocial Family in Wuthering Heights
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Literary Studies
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
