The Man of feeling as dupe of desire: John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Coxcomb (1751)

This essay analyses John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Coxcomb (1751), his idiosyncratic sequel to the more famous Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749). As Kathleen Lubey has recently shown, sensuality was part of literature’s repertoire of moral refinement. Indeed, Lubey has argued that erotica acts as ‘...

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Main Author: Rebecca Anne Barr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2016-12-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1454
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