In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself.
In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Автор: Hayden Название: Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery ISBN: 1137583452 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137583451 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The reconfiguration and relinquishing of one`s conviction in a world system long held to be finite required for many in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a compromise in one`s beliefs and the biblical authority on which he or she had relied - and this did not come without serious and complex challenges.
Автор: Keen Название: Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750–1800 ISBN: 1107479665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107479661 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the ways that authors responded to a sense of unprecedented cultural and technological change. Together, their interventions helped to shape the values and tensions that informed Britain`s sense of its own extraordinary modernity. Their insights have never been more pertinent.
Автор: Gould Philip Название: Writing the Rebellion: Loyalists and the Literature of Politics in British America ISBN: 0190494468 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190494469 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 61140.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Writing the Rebellion presents a cultural history of loyalist writing in early America, dissolving the old legend that loyalists were more British than American, and patriots the embodiment of a new sensibility.
Автор: Newman, Ian (university Of Notre Dame, Indiana) Название: Romantic tavern ISBN: 1108455921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108455923 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study of Romantic era London taverns explores metropolitan political and cultural life, focusing on architecture and convivial practice, including drinking songs, toasting practices, Anacreontic poetry and political ballads. It will appeal to literary scholars, historians, musicologists, and anyone interested in the history of the British pub.
Автор: Ian Newman Название: The Romantic Tavern: Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution ISBN: 1108470378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470377 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 99270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This study of Romantic era London taverns explores metropolitan political and cultural life, focusing on architecture and convivial practice, including drinking songs, toasting practices, Anacreontic poetry and political ballads. It will appeal to literary scholars, historians, musicologists, and anyone interested in the history of the British pub.
Prompted by commercial and imperial expansion such as the creation of the Bank of England in 1694 and the publication and circulation of Ben Jonson's The Staple of News in 1626, rapidly changing cultural, economic, and political realities in early modern England generated a paradigmatic shift in class awareness. Denys Van Renen's The Other Exchange demonstrates how middle-class consciousness not only emerged in opposition to the lived and perceived abuses of the aristocratic elite but also was fostered by the economic and sociocultural influence of women and lower-class urban communities.
Van Renen contends that, fascinated by the intellectual and cultural vibrancy of the urban underclass, many major authors and playwrights in the early modern era--Ben Jonson, Richard Brome, Aphra Behn, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Eliza Haywood, and Daniel Defoe--featured lower-class men and women and other marginalized groups in their work as a response to the shifting political and social terrain of the day. Van Renen illuminates this fascination with marginalized groups as a key element in the development of a middle-class mindset.
Denys Van Renen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
Автор: James Watt Название: British Orientalisms, 1759–1835 ISBN: 1108472664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108472661 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 99270.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the complex relationship between British literature and culture, and the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In doing so it illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others.
Автор: Kathryn Walchester Название: Travelling Servants: Mobility and Employment in British Travel Writing 1750- 1850 ISBN: 0367265478 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367265472 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book outlines the contribution made by servants to domestic and Continental travel and travel writing between 1750 and 1850.
Автор: Megan A. Norcia Название: Gaming Empire in Children`s British Board Games, 1836-1860 ISBN: 0367209357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367209353 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Over a century before Monopoly invited child players to bankrupt one another with merry ruthlessness, a lively and profitable board game industry thrived in Britain from the 1750s onward, thanks to publishers like John Wallis, John Betts, and William Spooner.
Автор: Jiang Xiaohu Название: The Late Eighteenth-Century Confluence of British-German Sentimental Literature: The Lessing Brothers, Henry Mackenzie, Goethe, and Jane Austen ISBN: 179361850X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781793618504 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 119680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book reads carefully the paratexts of translations which functioned as battlefields for the international reputation of British and German literature during the late eighteenth century, and then presents a new analysis of the literary link between the Lessing brothers, Henry Mackenzie, Goethe, and Jane Austen.
Автор: Sandrock Kirsten Название: Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 ISBN: 1474464009 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474464000 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s).
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