Sexing the Text

Sexing the TextCharts the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in eighteenth century British literature, providing a nuanced reinterpretation of gender and its role in the major genres of the period. An important contribution to the study of the history of sexuality, this book examines the emergence of a new kind of heterosexual rhetoric in the early eighteenth century, a rhetoric that ultimately displaced earlier and more diverse expressions of

Magda Hasabelnaby

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