Libertine Spaces and the Female Body in the Poetry of Rochester and Ned Ward

Narain explores the active role played by geography in the configurations of sexuality and gendered subjectivity in selected late seventeenth-century poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Edward Ward. Both Rochester's and Ward's poems encode sexuality, space and meaning correlatively...

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Published in:ELH 2005-10, Vol.72 (3), p.553-576
Main Author: Narain, Mona
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abstract spaces
Cities
English literature
Females
Gender
Geography
Ideology
Libertine lifestyle
Literary criticism
Metropolitan areas
Narrative poetry
Narrators
Poetry
Poets
Sexuality
Space
Subjectivity
Ward, Ed
Wilmot, John (Earl of Rochester) (1647-80)
Women
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Summary:Narain explores the active role played by geography in the configurations of sexuality and gendered subjectivity in selected late seventeenth-century poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester and Edward Ward. Both Rochester's and Ward's poems encode sexuality, space and meaning correlatively, so that the spatial representation of the female body becomes a site of conflictual ideologies.
ISSN:0013-8304
1080-6547
1080-6547
DOI:10.1353/elh.2005.0028