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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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2016-12-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/episteme/1454 |
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