Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890

✍ Scribed by Julie Peakman (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Sexual Perversion in History: An Introduction....Pages 1-49
Staging Perversion: The Restoration’s Sexual Allegory of (Un)civil War....Pages 50-71
Objects of Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke....Pages 72-94
The Woman in Man’s Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley’s ‘New Cabal’....Pages 95-116
The Hostile Gaze: Perverting the Female Form, 1688–1800....Pages 117-139
Rape in Early Eighteenth-Century London: A Perversion ‘so very perplex’d’....Pages 140-166
Morbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze....Pages 167-201
Religious Sexual Perversion in Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Literature....Pages 202-220
Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and ‘Oriental Vices’ in the British Raj....Pages 221-245
Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot....Pages 246-275
Back Matter....Pages 276-291

✦ Subjects

Cultural History; Gender Studies; Clinical Psychology; Social History; World History, Global and Transnational History; Sexual Behavior