Foucault''s Virginity : Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
The W. B. Stanford Memorial Lectures
ISBN-10
0521479347
ISBN-13
9780521479349
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 1995
Print length
212 Pages
Weight
320 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.30 x 1.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medievalLiterary studies: classical, early & medieval
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This is a study of how sex and sexuality are written about in the first centuries of this era.
The sexy, witty and often bizarre novels, poetry and dialogues of the first centuries of this era (works such as Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Cleitophon and Plutarch's Amatorius) were being composed at the same time as fundamental ideas about the body, gender and sexuality were being set in place with the rise of Christianity and the Church to dominate the pagan world. Modern writers on the history of sexuality have largely ignored this literature in favour of prose treatises, philosophy and Christian homilies. Simon Goldhill, writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers with whom he engages, sets out to put these texts back into the history of sexuality. The result is a dazzling celebration of sex and sexuality in the Greek literature of the first centuries CE.
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