Eighteenth-century sexuality is the focus of this issue.Contents include: Luxury and Virtue: the Breast and Political Imaginary; Gibbon and sex; Intriguing Jewelry: Royal Bodies and Scandalous Consumtion in Late Eighteenth-century France and England; An Effeminate or an Efficient nation? Masculinity in Eighteenth-century Social Commentary; Notes on The Camp: Military Effeminacy in Late Eighteenth-century Britain; Locating the Macaroni: Luxury, Sexuality and Vision in Vauxhall Gardens.
Author(s): Alan Sinfield
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 210
Book Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Luxurious Sexualities......Page 7
Luxury and sexuality......Page 8
Effeminacy reconsidered......Page 11
Women and the iconography of luxury......Page 12
A coda on Rome......Page 13
Notes......Page 14
Reviewing ‘the Spirit of Man-hood’: sodomy, masturbation and the body (politic) in eighteenth-century England......Page 16
Notes......Page 22
An ‘effeminate’ or ‘efficient’ nation? Masculinity and eighteenth-century social documentary......Page 25
Civic criticisms......Page 27
Enlightened responses......Page 28
Constructions of manliness......Page 29
‘Classical’ manliness......Page 30
Refined manliness......Page 31
Conclusion......Page 32
Notes......Page 33
The Vauxhall affray......Page 35
The Macaroni in the world of goods......Page 37
The Macaroni in the garden......Page 39
Notes......Page 44
I......Page 47
II......Page 48
III......Page 50
IV......Page 53
Notes......Page 55
Luxurious breasts......Page 57
Plato, Rousseau and the luxurious-virtuous breast......Page 60
‘Some account of a beautiful female slave’: liberty and luxury reconfigured......Page 62
Coda......Page 65
Notes......Page 66
Intriguing jewellery: royal bodies and luxurious consumption1......Page 68
Notes......Page 83
‘Of lust and luxury’......Page 87
‘Monkish virtues’......Page 89
‘The decency of modern language’......Page 91
‘The effeminate luxury of Oriental despotism’......Page 92
‘The meaner passions’......Page 95
‘The standard of modern times’......Page 96
Notes......Page 97
Appendix......Page 98
Reviews......Page 103
David Johnson, Shakespeare and South Africa (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 276 pp., £30.00 (hardback)......Page 104
Jonathan Hall, Anxious Pleasures: Shakespearean Comedy and the Nation-State (London: Associated University Presses, 1995), 291 pp., £25.00 (hardback)......Page 108
Michael H.Fisher, The First Indian Author in English: Dean Mahomed (1759–1851) in India, Ireland, and England (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996), 368 pp., Rs 485 (hardback)......Page 114
Marcia Pointon, Strategies for Showing: Women, Possession, and Representation in English Visual Culture 1665–1800 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), xiii+439 pp., £48.00 (hardback)......Page 117
Notes......Page 119
I......Page 120
III......Page 121
Notes......Page 123
Emma Tarlo, Clothing Matters: Dress and Identity in India (London: Hurst & Co, 1996), xxi+360 pp., £19.95 (paperback)......Page 124
Marilyn R.Farwell, Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives (New York: New York University Press, 1996), 227 pp., £17.95 (paperback)......Page 127
Peter Horne and Reina Lewis (eds), Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 196 pp., £45.00 (hardback), £14.99 (paperback)......Page 132
Catherine Waldby, AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 192 pp., £12.99 (paperback)......Page 138
Andrew Gibson, Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), viii+301 pp., £15.95 (paperback)......Page 141
Notes......Page 144
D ésormais…à demeure, or ‘radical’ hospitality......Page 145
Notes......Page 148
An ‘effeminate’ or ‘efficient’ nation? Masculinity and eighteenth-century social documentary......Page 149
Locating the Macaroni: luxury, sexuality and vision in Vauxhall Gardens......Page 150
From the luxurious breast to the virtuous breast: the body politic transformed......Page 151
Keywords......Page 152
Notes for contributors......Page 153
Index......Page 154
