Tropical Forests and Their Crops
Nigel J. H. Smith, J. T. Williams, Donald L. Plucknett, Jennifer P. Talbot
Inbunden, 1992
1 621 kr
Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature
Häftad, Engelska, 1992
452 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Beskrivning
This book examines the figure of the virgin, a symbol central to many aspects of society and sexuality in nineteenth-century England, and its effects on the Victorian literary imagination. Studying the virgin as a social, sexual, and literary phenomenon, the volume contributes to current critical accounts of the relations among the body and language, gender, and discourse.These essays explore the ways in which virginity is not a natural ideal but a complex cultural and literary sign. The authors rethink the virginal as a textual counter-example to the idealization of "natural sexuality."
