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702632
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b524821
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Parker, Todd C.,1965-
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| Title & Author
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Sexing the text : : the rhetoric of sexual difference in British literature, 1700-1750 /\ Todd C. Parker
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, 2000
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x, 218 pages ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0791444856
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: 0791444864
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: 9780791444856
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: 9780791444863
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index
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| Contents
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Onania: self-pollution and the danger of female sexuality -- Swift and the political anus -- Pope's to Cobham and To a lady: empiricism and the synecdochic woman -- Haywood's Philidore and Placentia or What the eunuch lost -- Reading the rhetoric of sexual difference in Cleland's memoirs of a woman of pleasure
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| Abstract
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"A contribution to the study of the history of sexuality, this book examines the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in the early eighteenth century, a rhetoric that ultimately displaced earlier and more diverse expressions of sexuality and the body. Drawing on traditional scholarly methods as well as recent queer-theoretical perspectives, the book traces the rise of the modern paradigm of compulsory heterosexuality, and counters certain feminist assumptions about the nature of "masculinity" and "male character" during the period
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Throughout, Parker offers readings of a variety of texts, including the fiercely homophobic pamphlet Onania; or the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution, Jonathan Swift's political satires on William Wood and Richard Tighe, Alexander Pope's poems To Cobham and To a Lady, Eliza Haywood's romance novel Philidore and Placentia, and John Cleland's pornographic novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure."--Jacket
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English language-- 18th century-- Rhetoric
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English language-- Great Britain-- Rhetoric
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English literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism
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Femininity in literature
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Human body in literature
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Masculinity in literature
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Sex differences (Psychology) in literature
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Sex differences in literature
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Sex in literature
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Sex role in literature
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Gender Identity
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Literature-- history
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Masturbation
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Prostitution
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Sex
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/3538/0905
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PR448.S45P37 2000
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| Parallel Title
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Rhetoric of sexual difference in British literature, 1700-1750
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