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Fictive domains : body, landscape, and nostalgia, 1717-1770

"The focus of Fictive Domains is the period 1717-1770, during which nostalgia was just beginning to emerge as a cultural concept. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and materialist theories, this book examines representations of bodies and landscapes in the cultural production of the early- to mid-eighteenth century." "Fictive Domains addresses a wide range of texts in landscape theory, sentimental literature, and medical discourse. It will appeal to many working in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, and cultural studies."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780838756348, 0838756344
67773761
Introduction : toward a theory of nostalgia
"Pronouncing her case to be grief" : nostalgia and the body in Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison
Desire, body, and landscape in Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" and Rousseau's Julie, ou La nouvelle Héloïse
The "secret pleasure" of the picturesque
"In a world so changed" : feminine nostalgia and Sarah Scott's A description of Millenium Hall, and the country adjacent