...Katherine Binhammer Duke University Press 2003 THE “SINGULAR PROPENSITY” OF SENSIBILITY’S EXTREMITIES Female Same-Sex Desire and the Eroticization of Pain in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Culture Katherine Binhammer The challenges of anachronism in writing pre-twentieth-century...

...Whitney Davis The essay presents a model of “queer family romance” (adapted from Freud's concept of family romance) in historical practices of collecting visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though queer collections of visual culture and queer family romance are independent...

...Mark J. Miller This essay uses the work of Jonathan Edwards to trace intellectual, historical, and theoretical connections between eighteenth-century religious conversion in England and New England and later accounts of masochism's Enlightenment philosophical basis. Expanding feminist readings...

... + 510 pp. $35.00 Eighteenth-century sexual practice plays an important role in most discussions of the history of sexuality. Writers like Michel Foucault, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Alan Bray, Emma Donoghue, and Michael McKeon have argued that the eigh...

... 2003 About the Contributors Katherine Binhammer is associate professor of English at the University of Alberta, where she specializes in eighteenth-century British cultural studies, feminist the- ory, and the history of sexuality. Her previous work on gender and sexuality in the 1790s...

..., and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. 540 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES George E. Haggerty is professor and chair of English and LGBTI studies at the Uni- versity of California, Riverside. His books include Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form (1989), Unnatural Affections...

... earlier understandings of sexuality and “modern” homosexual inscriptions on bodies, which begin in the “long” eighteenth century and continue into the twenty-first. King’s two volumes offer exciting intersections among intellectual history, traditional queer and cultural studies...

... and “modern” homosexual inscriptions on bodies, which begin in the “long” eighteenth century and continue into the twenty-first. King’s two volumes offer exciting intersections among intellectual history, traditional queer and cultural studies, and the newer discipline of performance studies...

... earlier understandings of sexuality and “modern” homosexual inscriptions on bodies, which begin in the “long” eighteenth century and continue into the twenty-first. King’s two volumes offer exciting intersections among intellectual history, traditional queer and cultural studies...

... the difference between earlier understandings of sexuality and “modern” homosexual inscriptions on bodies, which begin in the “long” eighteenth century and continue into the twenty-first. King’s two volumes offer exciting intersections among intellectual history, traditional queer and cultural...

... began in his earlier The English Phallus (2004). King emphasizes the difference between earlier understandings of sexuality and “modern” homosexual inscriptions on bodies, which begin in the “long” eighteenth century and continue into the twenty-first. King’s two volumes offer exciting...

...Jodi Schorb Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America Thomas Foster Boston: Beacon , 2006 . xx + 248 pp . Duke University Press 2009 Jodi Schorb is assistant professor of English at the University of Florida. Books in Brief...

... and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America Thomas Foster Boston: Beacon, 2006. xx + 248 pp. Wanted: Temperate, manly man who values moderation, marriage, and monogamy. No fops or friblers! (Muscular calves a plus...

... and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America Thomas Foster Boston: Beacon, 2006. xx + 248 pp. Wanted: Temperate, manly man who values moderation, marriage, and monogamy. No fops or friblers! (Muscular calves a plus...

... of convention. Jordan Alexander Stein teaches in the English department of the University of Colo- rado at Boulder. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-035 516 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Masters of Their Domain Jodi Schorb Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man...

... of convention. Jordan Alexander Stein teaches in the English department of the University of Colo- rado at Boulder. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-035 516 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Masters of Their Domain Jodi Schorb Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man...

... at Boulder. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-035 516 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES Masters of Their Domain Jodi Schorb Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America Thomas Foster Boston: Beacon...

... Shows and Sexual Nonconformity (1998). George E. Haggerty is professor of English and LGBT studies at the University of California, Riverside, and is author, most recently, of Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later Eighteenth Century...

... “The Pursuit of Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century: ‘Utterly Confused Category’ and/or Rich Repository?” appeared in ’Tis Nature’s Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment (1987) and has been reprinted several times. The essay won the James...

...). In this compelling account, gardening becomes a practice of willed countermemory. When their tropological condensations and displacements are deciphered, gardening memories tell the hidden truths of imperial world-making in the eighteenth century. Gardens are sites, images, and also ideological tools...