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Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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  • © 2006

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  1. Corrinne Harol
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy

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    Pages 1-15

  3. Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies

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    Pages 17-57

  4. The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity

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    Pages 59-84

  5. Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity

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    Pages 85-109

  6. Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope’s Belinda and the Virgin Mary

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    Pages 111-129

  7. Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela’s Virginity

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    Pages 131-145

  8. Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

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    Pages 147-165

  9. Conclusion: Clarissa’s Exceptional Infertility

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    Pages 167-178

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 179-239
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Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature analyzes the history of the English virgin at the height of her celebrity. In so doing, it presents new arguments about the early English novel and its relationship to science, religion, and feminist theory.

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CORINNE HAROL is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Department of English and Film Studies, USA. She was born in Boston, holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and now resides in both Edmonton, Alberta, and Santa Monica, California, USA.

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