Luxurious sexualities

Textual Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 405-416

  Quinn, Vincent ^a   Peace, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption; Effeminacy; Eighteenth century; The body politic; Uxury

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249276735     PISSN: 0950236X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502369708582286     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (London: Faber and Faber, 1963), p. 131.
2. John Sekora, Luxury: The Concept in Western Thought, Eden to Smollett (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977), p. 4.
3. For notable examples of the form, see James Thomson, Liberty (1735-6) and William Collins, 'Ode to Liberty' in Odes on Several Descriptive and Allegorical Subjects (1746).
4. J. G. A. Pocock, 'The mobility of property and the rise of eighteenth-century sociology' in Virtue, Commerce, History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefly in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge: CUP, 1983), pp. 103-23, p. 115.
5. Christopher Berry, The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical Investigation (Cambridge: CUP, 1994), p. xi.
6. See Mary Mclntosh, 'The homosexual role', Social Problems, 16(2), Fall 1968,
7. and Jeffrey Weeks, Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (London: Quartet, 1977).
8. See Alan Bray, Homosexuality in Renaissance England (London: GMP, 1982), pp. 81-114.
9. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (Manchester: MUP, 1987), p. vii.
10. See also Paul-Gabriel Boucé, Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Manchester. MUP, 1982).
11. See Bray, pp. 130, 131. See also Susan Sontag, 'Notes on camp' (1964) in A Susan Sontag Reader (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), pp. 105-19.
12. See Rictor Norton, Mother Clap's Molly House, The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 (London: GMP, 1992),
13. and Emma Donoghue, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 (London: Scarlet Press, 1993).
14. Trumbach's role in generating debate has been enormous, but his inter- ventions have been scattered over a variety of publications. For a cross-section of his work, see 'Sodomitical assaults, gender role, and sexual development in eighteenth-century London' in The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England, ed. Kent Gerard and Gert Hekma (New York and London: Harrington Park Press, 1989), pp. 407-29
15. 'London's Sapphists: from three sexes to four genders in the making of modern culture' in Body Guards: The Cultural Politics of Gender Ambiguity, ed. Julia Epstein and Kristina Straub (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 112-141;
16. 'Modern prostitution and gender in Fanny Hill: libertine and domestic fantasy' in Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment (see n. 16 above), pp. 69-85
17. 'Sodomitical subcultures, sodomitical roles, and the gender revolution of the eighteenth century: the recent historiography' in Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment, ed. Robert Purks Maccubin (Cambridge: CUP, 1987), pp. 109-121.
18. For articles dealing with continental Europe, see The Pursuit of Sodomy. Rudolf M. Dekker and Lotte C. van de Pol's The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989) is also useful.
19. See Terry Castle, Masquerade and Civilisation: the Carnivalesque in Eighteenth- Century Culture and Fiction (London: Methuen, 1986)
20. and Peter Stallybrass and Allon White, The Politics and Poetics of Transgression (London: Methuen, 1986).
21. Charles Lamb, 'On the genius and character of Hogarth' (1811; revised 1818), pp. 81-101 of Vol. I
22. of The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, ed. E. V. Lucas, 6 vols (London: Methuen, 1912), p. 82.