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Examines canonical texts from the unusual perspective of D. H. Lawrence’s remarks on Restoration literature. After defining `the Old Adam’ as a perennial target of ideology in the West, the book discusses the taming of the Old Adam, “glorying in the dirt” (from Lawrence’s remarks) in Restoration comedy as opposed to Fielding’s comic stage, Richardson’s “underclothing excitements” in contrast to Fielding’s sexual consciousness, Clarissa as sexual vengeance, `the Old Eve’ and `the Old Adam’ in Tom Jones, the disappearance of the “substantial” body from English literature, and, in conclusion, modern efforts to bring “physical consciousness” back into the novel. Other Literature – English Books 2013 – Use of Imaginary, Historical and Actual Maps in Literature: How British and Irish Authors Created Imaginary Worlds to Tell Their Stories ( Defoe, Swift, Wordsworth, Kipling, Joyce, Tolkien) 1996 – Essays on Audience Perception in Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature 2014 – How Eighteenth-Century Women Fended-Off Sexual Violence by Writing and Talking. A Study of Four British Novels by Delarivier Manley, Jane Barker, Eliza Haywood, and Samuel Richardson
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