| Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature Contributor(s): Davis, Lloyd (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0791412830 ISBN-13: 9780791412831 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Biography & Autobiography | Political |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 91045286 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion |
| Physical Information: (1.16 lbs) 257 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |