Mark M. Davis; Elaine Fuchs; Tony Hunter; Lily Yeh Jan; Yuh Nung Jan; Peter G. Schultz; Paul B. Sigler; David Weatherall John Wiley & Sons Inc (2000) Kovakantinen kirja
Donna Coates; Jaclyn Carter; Timothy Duffy; David Sigler; Linsey Robb; Lisa Payne Ossian; Carol Acton; Isabelle Groenhof Taylor & Francis Ltd (2020) Moniviestin
Jemar Tisby; Christopher P. Momany; Sègbégnon Mathieu Gnonhossou; David D. Daniels; R. Matthew Sigler; Douglas M. Strong IVP Academic (2024) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
John Wiley & Sons Sivumäärä: 288 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2015, 27.02.2015 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
Debates about gender in the British Romantic period often invoked the idea of sexual enjoyment: there was a broad cultural concern about jouissance, the all-engulfing pleasure pertaining to sexual gratification. On one hand, these debates made possible the modern psychological concept of the unconscious - since desire was seen as an uncontrollable force, the unconscious became the repository of disavowed enjoyment and the reason for sexual difference. On the other hand, the tighter regulation of sexual enjoyment made possible a vast expansion of the limits of imaginable sexuality. In Sexual Enjoyment and British Romanticism, David Sigler shows how literary writers could resist narrowing gender categories by imagining unregulated enjoyment. As some of the era's most prominent thinkers - including Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, Joanna Southcott, Charlotte Dacre, Jane Austen, and Percy Bysshe Shelley - struggled to understand sexual enjoyment, they were able to devise new pleasures in a time of narrowing sexual possibilities. Placing Romantic-era literature in conversation with Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, Sexual Enjoyment in British Romanticism reveals the fictive structure of modern sexuality, makes visible the diversity of sexual identities from the period, and offers a new understanding of gender in British Romanticism.