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T o r r i d Z o n e s Parallax R e-visions of C ulture and Society Stephen G. Nichols, Gerald Prince, and Wendy Steiner, Series Editors ¿S G * 4 3 (3 ? 4 ® ^ ^ 5 ^ <4® T Z o r r i d o n e s <2* •<£&* ^ 2 » '«S&fc 'i® ® * ■<%&)» '*& ; Maternity Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives Felicity A.JVussbaum THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS Baltimore and London G -Z A O ¿20,9 N 9 6 ? t * © 1995 The Johns Hopkins University Press All rights reserved. Published 1995 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 1 The Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21218-4319 The Johns Hopkins Press Ltd., London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data will be found at the end of this book. A catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. isbn 0-8018-5074-6 isbn 0-8018-5075-4 (pbk.) G L FOR £ m g l Janet Gladfelter Nussbaum 2_i 11^6 and Leo Lester Nussbaum 5* C o n t e n t s Acknowledgments ix in trod u ction : England’s Other Women 1 Torrid Mothers: Domesticating the Erotic 2 “Savage” Mothers: Johnsons Life of Savage 3 I Polygamy, Pamela, and the Prerogative of Empire 4 Prostitution, Body Parts, and Sexual Geography 5 The Empire of Love: The Veil and the Blush of Romance 6 Feminotopias: The Seraglio, the Homoerotic, and the Pleasures of “Deformity” 7 “An Affectionate and Voluntary Sacrifice”: Sati, Rape, and Marriage epilogue: Whose Enlightenment Is It? Notes 2ii Index 255 A c k n o w l e d g m e n t s I have been very lucky while writing this book in various venues to have been surrounded by good friends and colleagues. My debts are deep, but none so great as to Jean E. Howard, with whom I have shared ideas and female friendship for almost two decades. Carol Barash, Toni Bowers, Laura Brown, Terry Casde, Margaret Doody, Roxann Eberle, Margo Hendricks, Cora Kaplan, Pat Parker, Ruth Perry, James Turner, and Bill Warner each contributed to the manu­ script in ways they have probably forgotten but for which I am very grateful. Dympna Callaghan and Harriet Guest read several chapters and spurred me on with spirited critique, and John Bender offered generous and sage counsel. The Stanford Humanities Center provided a lively intellectual community as I drafted the bulk of the book, and the community of fellows contributed to making it a most memorable year, especially Kathleen Canning, Sandra Greene, Kate Hayles, and Ana Zentella. Herbie Lindenberger, Charles Junkerman, and the skilled staff at the Center encouraged my work at every turn. The John Simon Guggen­ heim Memorial Foundation also granted a fellowship for the comple­ tion of the book. Audiences too numerous to name have improved this work with their penetrating questions and interest, including espe­ cially the David Nichol Smith Seminar in Melbourne, Australia, the Bay Area Eighteenth-Century Group, and the University of Pennsyl­ vania Early Modern Culture Seminar. The students in my graduate seminars, as well as Sara Gadeken, Michelle Jensen, David Weed, and Roxann Wheeler, contributed to the ideas in embryo. I want to thank especially the staffs of the rare books collections at Stanford University libraries, the Cornell University Libraries, The British Library, and the Syracuse University Library. Carolyn Moser’s editorial expertise greatly improved the manuscript. A version of Chapter 2 appeared in Cultural Critique 20 (Winter 1991-92) and was reprinted in Eighteenth-Century Life 16, n.s. 1 (February 1992); and a version of Chapter 3 was published in Women, “Race, ” and Writing in the Early Modern Period, ed. Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker (New Yorlc Roudedge 1993). Australian Womens Book Review (Fall 1993) published a short section of Chapter 1. Annika and Peter Ekman and their family have provided good

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