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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"amatory"”.
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Equal Ardor: Female Desire, Amatory Fiction, and the Recasting of the Novel, 1680--1760
This dissertation explores the significance of amatory fiction in shaping the development of the eighteenth-century novel by arguing for the importance and persistence of the amatory heroine, a character who challenges the notion that female novelistic subjectivity must be based on absolute sexual …
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Eighteenth-century fiction and the production of shame, 1680-1753
… neither negates nor contains the power of amatory fiction but illustrates the inability of “virtue rewarded” to resolve the tensions within eighteenth-century fiction and the representation of female subjectivity. Chapter 1 argues that Behn’s amatory fiction, Love Letters Between a Nobleman …
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The Secret History of the English Spy: 1674-1800
… narratives, financial tell-alls, periodicals, amatory secret histories, and domestic and Gothic fictions, I incorporate the idea of surveillance into eighteenth-century literary history in order to more thoroughly understand how the genre speaks back to eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, …
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Impossible to Write Alone: Expanded I and Absent Addressee in Chris Kraus's I Love Dick
… and eighteenth-century precedents in the amatory epistolary genre. By examining the formal constraints that belong to the epistolary medium Kraus employed—requirements such as the "I" of the writer, the "you" of the receiver, and a desire for exchange—I show how she deploys epistolary …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… to identifying the critiques of religious and amatory musical practices. In each of these chapters, musicality raises two interlocking issues: the degree to which music can evoke affective response in the hearer, and the relative values of rationality and natural wisdom.
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… to identifying the critiques of religious and amatory musical practices. In each of these chapters, musicality raises two interlocking issues: the degree to which music can evoke affective response in the hearer, and the relative values of rationality and natural wisdom.
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Looking for Lovelace: identity, style and inheritance in the poetry of the interregnum
… educated and exclusive male coterie. Lovelace’s amatory verse is viewed through the prism of contemporary attitudes towards female constancy, but also through seventeenth-century poets’ habitual borrowings from Latin and Greek sources. Lovelace’s attempt at a lengthy pastoral partakes of the …
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A grammar of sentiment thinking about sentimental jewellery towards making new art about love and loss.
… upon the materiality and aesthetic of the amatory locket; and Widows Weeds, a large format photographic installation, which considers the materiality and lineage of mourning cloth. Collectively, they explore the typology of the sentimental artefact through development of text/image …
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"Unpredictable symmetries": the discursive functions of early seventeenth-century Scottish romance
… its contemporary equivalents with their more amatory accents, and how it is instead a canon of disparities, rather than of uniformity. Over and above this, the present study shall address the deliberate use of the genre’s inherently idiosyncratic nature to articulate cultural, literary and …
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A study of early Caroline lyric verse with special attention to that of Thomas Carew and Robert Herrick
… particular the increasing popularity of the declamatory air in which individual words were heard clearly so that each was important, affected early Caroline lyrics, and was affected by them. To a lesser extent, but just as surely, drama, masque and dance left their mark on the lyric form. …
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Jewish toleration, assimilation, and citizenship in the British imagination, 1655-1755
… early exploration of the Jewish Question in her amatory novella, The Fair Hebrew (1729). Reading the text against the backdrop of growing Jewish acculturation in the first part of the eighteenth century, I argue that despite its apparently virulent anti-Jewish rhetoric, the novella …
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"Her panting heart beat measures of consent": Women's Sexual Agency in Eliza Haywood's Fiction
Through her texts depicting amorous adventures, Eliza Haywood engages with critical, contemporary discussions about power relations and consent in both social and legal constructs. Her texts resist the boundary between the private domain of interpersonal relationships and the public domain of …