Enlightened virginity in eighteenth-century literature /
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| Author / Creator: | Harol, Corrinne. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. |
| Description: | viii, 239 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6099744 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy
- 1. Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies
- 2. The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity
- 3. Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity
- 4. Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope's Belinda and the Virgin Mary
- 5. Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela's Virginity
- 6. Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- Conclusion: Clarissa's Exceptional Infertility
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
