The Yearbook of English Studies · 1996 · 39 citations · 0 references
HumanitiesGender StudiesHistoryEnglish LiteratureGender HistoryWomen's HistoryBody PoliticsEighteenth-century LiteratureFeminist CriticismSexual PoliticsSexuality In HistorySexuality In LiteratureCultural Politics Of GenreFemale Body In LiteratureGendered Body PoliticsHistories Of Sexual SubculturesLiterary PoliticsSexual Identity PoliticsSexuality PoliticsWomen's Sexuality In Literature
List of illustrations Preface 1. Political plottings: history, sexual politics, and the body politic 2. Counterplotting restoration: widows and other fatal women 3. The plots thicken: dogma and its discontents through exclusion 4. Revolutionary plottings: representing the revolution 5. Whigs and husbands: politics and cultivation 6. Coda: cultural politics from the South Sea Bubble to Tom Jones Select bibliography Index.