Virginal sexuality and textuality in Victorian literature /
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 257 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion SUNY series, the body in culture, history, and religion. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11103395 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Virginal Texts
- Chapter 1. The Virgin Body as Victorian Text: An Introduction
- Chapter 2. Virginal Sex, Vaginal Text: The "Folds" of Frankenstein
- Chapter 3. The Reader and the Virgin: What Next?
- Chapter 4. White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
- Part 2. Virginal Poeisis
- Chapter 5. Representation and Repristination: Virginity in The Ring and the Book
- Chapter 6. Becoming the Poet: The Feminine Poet-Speaker in the Work of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Chapter 7. The Frozen Fountain: Christina Rossetti, the Virgin Model, and Youthful Pre-Raphaelitism
- Chapter 8. Like a Virgin: Coventry Patmore's Still Unknown Eros
- Part 3. Virgin de Siècle
- Chapter 9. What Lily Knew: Virginity in the 1890s
- Chapter 10. Confessing and Editing: The Politics of Purity in Hardy's Tess
- Chapter 11. Gender and Sexual Dis-Ease in Dracula
- Chapter 12. "The Inner Chambers of All Nameless Sin": The Beetle, Gothic Female Sexuality, and Oriental Barbarism
- Notes
- Contributors
- Index