Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel by Elizabeth Dill

Erotic Citizens: Sex and the Embodied Subject in the Antebellum Novel

Elizabeth Dill

296 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

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What is the role of sex in the age of democratic beginnings? Despite the sober republican ideals of the Enlightenment, the literature of America's early years speaks of unruly, carnal longings. Elizabeth Dill argues that the era's proliferation of...

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