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Lewd and Notorious : Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century by Katharine Kittredge is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lewd and Notorious : Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century about?
Accounts of women's transgressive behavior in eighteenth-century literature and social documents have much to teach us about constructions of femininity during the period often identified as having formed our society's gender norms. Lewd and Notorious explores the eighteenth century's shadows, inhabited by marginal women of many kinds and degrees of contrariness. The reader meets Laetitia Pilkington, whose sexual indiscretions caused her to fall from social and literary grace to become an articu
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Katharine Kittredge
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780472089062
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Cultural, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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