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Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835

Title
Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835 / David Sigler.
Author
Sigler, David, 1977-
Publication
  • Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Description
viii, 279 pages; 23 cm
Summary
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.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Contents
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
JFE 16-6606
ISBN
  • 9780773545090
  • 0773545093
  • 9780773545106
  • 0773545107
  • 9780773597044 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0773597042 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780773597051 (canceled/invalid)
  • 0773597050 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
893309207
Author
Sigler, David, 1977- author.
Title
Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism : gender and psychoanalysis, 1753-1835 / David Sigler.
Publisher
Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats
Issued also in electronic format.
Chronological Term
1700-1899
1700-talet
1800-talet
Other Form:
Sigler, David, 1977-, author. Sexual enjoyment in British romanticism. (CaOONL)20149068549
Research Call Number
JFE 16-6606
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