ELH., Volume 72Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005 ELH publishes studies that interpret the conditions affecting major works in English and American literature. The journal seeks to emphasize the importance of historical continuity in the discipline of letters without sponsoring particular methods or aims. |
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Page 562
... sexuality - a woman who is unfettered by domestic boundaries is common indeed , both in her class and her sexual availability . The conflation of place , space , and body serves to represent visually the disgust generated by the common ...
... sexuality - a woman who is unfettered by domestic boundaries is common indeed , both in her class and her sexual availability . The conflation of place , space , and body serves to represent visually the disgust generated by the common ...
Page 571
... sexual encounters with relish , not showing any of the disquiet of Rochester's narrator . Instead , the satire , conducted in direct language , indicts those around him while the narrator himself shows no desire for emotional distance ...
... sexual encounters with relish , not showing any of the disquiet of Rochester's narrator . Instead , the satire , conducted in direct language , indicts those around him while the narrator himself shows no desire for emotional distance ...
Page 835
... sexuality must be wiped out to keep her a figure of sympathetic identification . Counterbalancing Gloster's ethos of domination and manipulation , as well as Alicia's sexual tyranny through flirtation , is an egalitarian , liberal ...
... sexuality must be wiped out to keep her a figure of sympathetic identification . Counterbalancing Gloster's ethos of domination and manipulation , as well as Alicia's sexual tyranny through flirtation , is an egalitarian , liberal ...
Contents
Libertine Spaces and the Female Body in the Poetry of Rochester | 553 |
Shelleys Uncertain Heaven | 577 |
Everyday War | 605 |
Copyright | |
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