Making Love

Sentiment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
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Author: Paul Kelleher ISBN: 9781611486940
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: July 16, 2015
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Paul Kelleher
ISBN: 9781611486940
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: July 16, 2015
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality. Paul Kelleher argues that British sentimental authors in the eighteenth century imagine heterosexual desire and conjugal love as forms of moral sensibility; this ideological vision, in which heterosexuality is equated with sympathy, benevolence, and moral goodness, persists to this day and informs contemporary debates regarding sexual ethics and same-sex marriage and adoption.

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Making Love closely reexamines the literary history of sentimentalism in order to open up new ways of understanding the history of sexuality. Paul Kelleher argues that British sentimental authors in the eighteenth century imagine heterosexual desire and conjugal love as forms of moral sensibility; this ideological vision, in which heterosexuality is equated with sympathy, benevolence, and moral goodness, persists to this day and informs contemporary debates regarding sexual ethics and same-sex marriage and adoption.

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