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Le système amoureux de Brantôme : essai
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ISBN: 273847196X Year: 1998 Publisher: Paris Montréal L'Harmattan

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Sexuality in Greek and Roman society and literature : a sourcebook
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Year: 2005

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Searching for the Cinaedus in Ancient Rome
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ISBN: 9789004548374 9004548378 9004548386 9789004548381 Year: 2023 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus ? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.


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Erotic citizens
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ISBN: 081394337X 0813943396 0813943388 9780813943381 9780813943374 9780813943398 Year: 2019 Publisher: Charlottesville

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"What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? "Erotic Citizens" answers this question by revealing the political workings of extramarital erotic intimacy, when the democratic subject, a figure at the center of the early US republic's nation-building project, is filled with a curious kind of yearning that only illicit sexual desire can represent. For as much as readers might say about the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment in America and abroad, the literature of this era speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Through an examination of philosophical tracts, political cartoons, frontispiece illustrations, portraiture, and the novel from the antebellum period, this study advances a new understanding of how the terms of embodiment and selfhood function to define national belonging. From a story of survival authored by a North Carolina slave woman to a philosophical treatise penned by an English earl, the readings included in this study employ the trope of sexual ruin to tell their tales. They turn to the errant-yet often irrepressibly bewitching-sensate encounters among libertines, coquettes, and concubines to define the spirit of the age. They show, again and again, that to build a nation is to undo the virtue of a woman. "Erotic Citizens" explains why. By exploring the far-ranging impact of post-revolutionary American literature's more prurient aspects, "Erotic Citizens" shows how this era's depiction of the sometimes erotic, sometimes violent complexion of extramarital sexual encounter defines illicit sex as the point of entry into democracy. In her in-depth analysis, Dill reveals that the genre's defining principle is its repudiation of the individual as the centerpiece of a democratic polity, through its portrayals of the sexually ruined body's operational lack of individual will. Ultimately, this book explains why the new American republic witnessed a proliferation of texts about sexual ruin, as it investigates the ruin genre's claim that the democratic body must by its very nature also be a ruined one"--


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La novella milesia in Petronio
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Year: 1978 Publisher: Lecce : Milella,

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L'insolence de l'amour : fictions de la vie sexuelle
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ISBN: 9782226175977 Year: 2007 Publisher: Paris : Albin Michel,

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Mujer publica y vida privada : del arte eunuco a la novela lupanaria
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ISBN: 1282621254 9786612621253 1846156645 1855661667 Year: 2008 Publisher: Woodbridge : Tamesis,

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During the reign of Isabel II, the new Spanish novel was born, inspired by the deep fracture between public morality and private life. In the middle of the European debate on the legalization or abolition of the carnal trade, the infamous woman emerges as a modern heroine, specifically the prostitute, a symbol of the evils that afflict contemporary society. The presence of the public woman in the popular narrative will give rise to a well-established brothel current that will legitimize the incursion of literature into the spaces of private life and into the silenced female sexuality, a necessary fertilizer for the birth of the 20th century Spanish erotic novel.


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Domestic architecture, literature and the sexual imaginary in Europe, 1850-1930
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ISBN: 147446310X 1474463096 147446307X Year: 2023 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This text sheds light on the contributions of architecture and its literary representations to a series of changes taking place in sexual culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in France, England, Germany and Austria.


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Sexual restraint and aesthetic experience in Victorian literary decadence
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ISBN: 1108912133 1108917496 1108831516 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.


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La novella milesia in Petronio
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Year: 1978 Publisher: Lecce : Milella,

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