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Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Cen tury English...
by Nussbaum, Felicity A. | PB | Good
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- ISBN
- 9780801850752
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism
- Publication Name
- Torrid Zones : Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
- Item Length
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- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Subject
- Women Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Series
- Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society Ser.
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Width
- 7.4 in
- Item Weight
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- Number of Pages
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How did the creation of the "Other" woman in English narratives contribute to the displacement of sexuality onto the exotic or savage woman? How did this cultural invention reinforce the cult of domesticity at home? What were the social and economic forces driving the process? Among the first books to consider issues of empire in relation to literary texts of the eighteenth century, Torrid Zones offers a compelling revision of the history of feminism in a postcolonial context. Felicity Nussbaum argues that the need to control women's sexuality in eighteenth-century England intensified as the demands of trade and colonization required an ever-larger, able-bodied population. Describing how women's reproductive labor was harnessed to that task, Nussbaum explores issues such as the production of life, of goods, and of desire. She also considers a variety of cultural practices (usually construed as exotic) in England and the empire, including polygamy, infanticide, prostitution, homoeroticism, and arranged marriages. Torrid Zones includes new readings of significant texts by and about female subjects, including novels by Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, Cleland, Lennox, Sarah Scott, Frances Sheridan, and Phebe Gibbes. It also considers the more broadly defined texts of culture such as travel narratives, medical documents, legal records, and engravings. "I take as a central metaphor for the consideration of maternity and sexuality the concept of torrid zones, both the geographical torrid zones of the territory between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn, and the torrid zone mapped onto the human body, especially the female body. A premise of my study is that the contrasts among the torrid, temperate, and frigid zones of the globe are formative in imagining that a sexualized woman of empire is distinct from domestic English womanhood. The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."--from the Introduction
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Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801850754
ISBN-13
9780801850752
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Torrid Zones : Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Women Authors, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Series
Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society Ser.
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
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95-011801
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Scholarly & Professional
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Pr756.W65n87 1995
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College Graduate Student
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"Self-consciously exemplifies what a feminist new historicism would look like; Nussbaum's introduction and opening two chapters technically but clearly lay out a fresh approach to eighteenth-century writing about the self and to autobiography in general."--Mitzi Myers, Women's Review of Books, Scholars of the emergent empire in the 18th century should see sexuality in terms of feminism's internal structures and its 'Othering'. Nussbaum discusses polygamy in African narratives and in England, examining Mary Wollstonecraft's work, Anna Falconbridge's narrative of her voyages to Sierra Leone, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's description of her timein Turkey. She also looks at prostitution, romance, sati, and a variety of other subjects found in travel literature, thereby providing a view of both the Englishwomen and the Other woman... Nussbaum succeeds in making the 'ideological working of empire and Englishwomen's complicity within it more legible., "Scholars of the emergent empire in the 18th century should see sexuality in terms of feminism's internal structures and its 'Othering'. Nussbaum discusses polygamy in African narratives and in England, examining Mary Wollstonecraft's work, Anna Falconbridge's narrative of her voyages to Sierra Leone, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's description of her timein Turkey. She also looks at prostitution, romance, sati, and a variety of other subjects found in travel literature, thereby providing a view of both the Englishwomen and the Other woman... Nussbaum succeeds in making the 'ideological working of empire and Englishwomen's complicity within it more legible."-- Choice, Self-consciously exemplifies what a feminist new historicism would look like; Nussbaum's introduction and opening two chapters technically but clearly lay out a fresh approach to eighteenth-century writing about the self and to autobiography in general.
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1995
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820.9/352042/09033
Dewey Edition
20
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