Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Kittredge, Katharine.

Description

1. viii, 329 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative title

1. Lewd and notorious

Subject

1. English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
2. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
3. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
4. Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
5. Difference (Psychology) in literature
6. Deviant behavior in literature
7. Female offenders in literature
8. Conduct of life in literature
9. Dissenters in literature
10. Outsiders in literature
11. Lesbians in literature
12. Women in literature
13. Crime in literature

Contents

1. "Queer to queer": the Sapphic body as transgressive text / Susan L. Lanser -- Claiming the "sacred mantle": The memoirs of L̆titia Pilkington / Susan Goulding -- Elizabeth Carter's self-pun-ishment: puns, pedantry, and polite learning / Juliet Feibel -- A Carnival of Mirrors / The grotesque body of the eighteenth century British Masquerade / Elizabeth Hunt -- Lustful windows and old maids in late eighteenth-century English caricatures / Cindy McCreery -- Sensibility and speculation: Emma Hamilton / Betsy Bolton -- "Every like is not the same," or is it?: gender, criminal biographies, and the politics of indifference / Jessica Kimball Printz -- Elizabeth Canning and Mary Squires: representations of guilt and innocence in legal and literary texts, 1753-1989 / Judith Moore -- A mistress, a mother, and a murderess too: Elizabeth Brownrigg and the social construction of an eighteenth-century mistress / Patty Seleski -- Eliza Haywood, Sapphic desire, and the practice of reading / Catherine Ingrassia -- "A-killing their children with safety": maternal identity and transgression in Swift and Defoe / Marilyn Francus -- Ruined women and illegitimate daughters: revolution and female sexuality / Julie Shaffer.

Call number

1. JFE 03-7951

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Lewd & notorious : female transgression in the eighteenth century / edited by Katharine Kittredge.

Imprint

1. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Kittredge, Katharine.

LCCN

1. 2002011939

ISBN

1. 047211090X (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 0472089064 (paper : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 03-7951