1st Edition
Heteronormativity in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Of closed doors and open hatches: heteronormative plots in 18th-century (women's) studies. Conjugal capitalism: the domestication of public space. Marriage, sexuality, and the meaning of the wedding night in 18th-century France. John Wilkes's 'Closet': hetero privacy and the annotation of desire in An Essay on Woman. Monstrous gallantry: protective masculinity in the 1790s. Queer counterhistory and the specter of effeminacy. The failure of heteronormativity in the gothic novel. John Gabriel Stedman, heteronormativity, and white men's gender trouble. Teaching 18th-century literature in a transgendered classroom.
Biography
Ana de Freitas Boe is Associate Professor of English Literature at Baldwin Wallace University, USA, and Abby Coykendall is Professor of English Language and Literature at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
