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Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal, 1600–1800 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850) - Softcover

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9781611486889: Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal, 1600–1800 (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850)
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ISBN 10: 1611486882 ISBN 13: 9781611486889
Verlag: Bucknell University Press, 2015

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Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 explores the oppositionscreated by the official exclusion ofbanned sexual practices and theresistance to that exclusion throughwidespread acceptance of thoseoutlawed practices at an interpersonallevel. At different times and in differentplaces, state legislation sets up—ortries to set up—a “normal” by rejectinga particular practice or group ofpractices. Yet this “normal” is derogatedby popular practice, since the bannedacts themselves are thought at thegrassroots level to be “normal.” Amongthe events discussed in these essaysare the Woods-Pirie trial, the “Ladies ofLlangollen,” the popular acceptance offops and mollies, and the press reactionto the discovery that James Allen wasa woman who had lived successfullyas a man and Lavinia Edwards wasa man who had made her living as afemale prostitute. Developments in the History of Sexualities analyzesboth the state language of bansand fiats about sexuality, and thegrassroots language which marks theacceptance of multiplicity in sexualpractice. Contributors benefit fromthe accumulation of new evidenceof attitudes towards sexual practice,and they engage with a wide range oftexts, including Ned Ward’s History of the Clubs, Tobias Smollett’s Roderick Random, Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest, Dryden’s All for Love, Anne Batten Cristall’s Poetical Sketches, Isaac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante, and Alessandro Verri’s Le Avventure di Saffo.

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Chris Mounsey is professor of English at the University of Winchester.

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Verlag
Bucknell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1611486882
ISBN 13 
9781611486889
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Anzahl der Seiten
330
Herausgeber
Mounsey Chris
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