1st Edition
Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing A Public of One
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Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter One: The Law of Rape
Chapter Two: Homo Economicus
Chapter Three: Tortious Conversations
Chapter Four: In the Pigsty
Chapter Five: Malthusian Husbandries
Chapter Six: Love among the Ruins
Bibliography
Biography
Adam Komisaruk is Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University. He is the author of several articles on British Romantic and eighteenth-century literature; and the editor, with Allison Dushane, of Erasmus Darwin’s The Botanic Garden (2 vols., Routledge, 2017).
Adam Komisaruk examines “the varieties of erotic experience in an age of revolution” (1), covering British writings from c. 1780 to 1830. He posits an overriding theme of the relation between “sexual privatism” and “the public sphere,” and he cites most of the theorists (Habermas,Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Laqueur, Sedgwick, etc.) whose ideas have long dominated such discourse. He organizes his study “according to some different sexual ‘publics’in the period: legal treatments of rape, sodomy and adultery; high-profile sex scandal; population theory; and club culture” - Marsha Keith Schuchard, Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly
