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The Resource The Cambridge companion to erotic literature, edited by Bradford K. Mudge

The Cambridge companion to erotic literature, edited by Bradford K. Mudge

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"The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controversies in literary history: the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable treatments of human sexuality. Whether scurrilous Roman satire, irreverent Restoration drama, or bold Modernist novel, erotic literature pushes the boundaries of the acceptable and challenges the conventions of more mainstream literatures. In fifteen chapters that range from ancient Greece and Rome to twentieth-century American, English, French, and Dutch literature, experts in the field confront a variety of related topics, such as the definition and scope of erotic literature, the nature of textual pleasure, historical shifts in the understanding of the normal and the perverse, the relationship between gender and genre, sexual violence, homosexuality, sadomasochism, necrophilia, satire, pornography, etc. Students new to the scholarship are provided with a clear and useful introduction; those already familiar with the field are given an exciting glimpse into the most recent work" -- Publisher's description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xix, 269 pages
Contents
  • Eros and literature / Bradford K. Mudge
  • Classical antiquity and modern erotic literature / Daniel Orrells
  • Performances of suffering: secular and devotional eros in late medieval writing / Sarah Salih
  • Can a woman rape a man?: rape and the erotic in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis / Elizabeth Robertson
  • The manuscript circulation of erotic poetry in early modern England / Ian Moulton
  • The erotic Renaissance / James Grantham Turner
  • Pornography, procreation, and pleasure in early modern England / Sarah Toulalan
  • Novel pleasure / Bradford K. Mudge
  • Erotic for whom?: when particular bodies matter to romantic sexuality / Richard Sha
  • Emily Dickinson in love (with death) / Marianne Noble
  • Erotic bonds among women in Victorian literature / Deborah Lutz
  • Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enfer collection, and modernist eroto-bibliography / Collette Colligan
  • Sade, Reage, and transcending the obscene / Amy Wyngaard --'Nothing could stop it now!': Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer, and the intersections of desire / David Greven
  • Dutch gay novels of the 1960s and 1970s / Gert Hekma
Isbn
9781316635339
Instance
Label
The Cambridge companion to erotic literature
Title
The Cambridge companion to erotic literature
Statement of responsibility
edited by Bradford K. Mudge
Title variation
  • Companion to erotic literature
  • Erotic literature
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Editor
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature offers an introduction to key debates in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present. It addresses one of the longest standing controversies in literary history: the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable treatments of human sexuality. Whether scurrilous Roman satire, irreverent Restoration drama, or bold Modernist novel, erotic literature pushes the boundaries of the acceptable and challenges the conventions of more mainstream literatures. In fifteen chapters that range from ancient Greece and Rome to twentieth-century American, English, French, and Dutch literature, experts in the field confront a variety of related topics, such as the definition and scope of erotic literature, the nature of textual pleasure, historical shifts in the understanding of the normal and the perverse, the relationship between gender and genre, sexual violence, homosexuality, sadomasochism, necrophilia, satire, pornography, etc. Students new to the scholarship are provided with a clear and useful introduction; those already familiar with the field are given an exciting glimpse into the most recent work" -- Publisher's description
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DLC
Dewey number
809/.933538
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PN56.E7
LC item number
C36 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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Mudge, Bradford Keyes
Series statement
Cambridge Companions To Literature
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  • Erotic literature
  • Eroticism in literature
  • Sex in literature
  • Erotic literature
  • Eroticism in literature
  • Sex in literature
Label
The Cambridge companion to erotic literature, edited by Bradford K. Mudge
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Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Eros and literature / Bradford K. Mudge -- Classical antiquity and modern erotic literature / Daniel Orrells -- Performances of suffering: secular and devotional eros in late medieval writing / Sarah Salih -- Can a woman rape a man?: rape and the erotic in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis / Elizabeth Robertson -- The manuscript circulation of erotic poetry in early modern England / Ian Moulton -- The erotic Renaissance / James Grantham Turner -- Pornography, procreation, and pleasure in early modern England / Sarah Toulalan -- Novel pleasure / Bradford K. Mudge -- Erotic for whom?: when particular bodies matter to romantic sexuality / Richard Sha -- Emily Dickinson in love (with death) / Marianne Noble -- Erotic bonds among women in Victorian literature / Deborah Lutz -- Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enfer collection, and modernist eroto-bibliography / Collette Colligan -- Sade, Reage, and transcending the obscene / Amy Wyngaard --'Nothing could stop it now!': Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer, and the intersections of desire / David Greven -- Dutch gay novels of the 1960s and 1970s / Gert Hekma
Control code
1002722486
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xix, 269 pages
Isbn
9781316635339
Lccn
2017032745
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)1002722486
Label
The Cambridge companion to erotic literature, edited by Bradford K. Mudge
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Eros and literature / Bradford K. Mudge -- Classical antiquity and modern erotic literature / Daniel Orrells -- Performances of suffering: secular and devotional eros in late medieval writing / Sarah Salih -- Can a woman rape a man?: rape and the erotic in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis / Elizabeth Robertson -- The manuscript circulation of erotic poetry in early modern England / Ian Moulton -- The erotic Renaissance / James Grantham Turner -- Pornography, procreation, and pleasure in early modern England / Sarah Toulalan -- Novel pleasure / Bradford K. Mudge -- Erotic for whom?: when particular bodies matter to romantic sexuality / Richard Sha -- Emily Dickinson in love (with death) / Marianne Noble -- Erotic bonds among women in Victorian literature / Deborah Lutz -- Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enfer collection, and modernist eroto-bibliography / Collette Colligan -- Sade, Reage, and transcending the obscene / Amy Wyngaard --'Nothing could stop it now!': Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer, and the intersections of desire / David Greven -- Dutch gay novels of the 1960s and 1970s / Gert Hekma
Control code
1002722486
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xix, 269 pages
Isbn
9781316635339
Lccn
2017032745
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
System control number
(OCoLC)1002722486

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