Henry Fielding's The Female Husband and the Sexuality of Vagrancy.
A literary criticism is presented of the book "The Female Husband" by Henry Fielding. Emphasis is given to the theme of vagrancy and practices of gendered embodiment in relation to the history of sexuality and vagrancy laws. Other topics include the relationship between desire and crime, religious c...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 335 - 354 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Winter2014
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| Sumario: | A literary criticism is presented of the book "The Female Husband" by Henry Fielding. Emphasis is given to the theme of vagrancy and practices of gendered embodiment in relation to the history of sexuality and vagrancy laws. Other topics include the relationship between desire and crime, religious conversion, and the economic aspects of sexuality. |
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