Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK. She is the author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (MUP, 2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited and co-edited over 30 books. This will be her third edited book on Angela Carter. Recently she made a film on Carter’s The Bloody Chamber for Massolit, for use in schools (33,000 downloads). She was the co-curator of the Strange Worlds exhibition on Angela Carter at the Royal West Academy of Art in Bristol 2017 and co-edited the catalogue. She is the co-founder of Women’s Writing, for which she serves as Editor and runs two Carter websites with Charlotte Crofts.

• Introduction; M.Mulvey RobertsEnlightenment and Pleasure; R.PorterMaterial Pleasures in the Consumer Society; R.PorterThe Pleasures of the Table; S.VareyPleasures Engendered by Gender: Homosociality and the Club; M.Mulvey Roberts'The Luxury of Doing Good': Benevolence, Sensibility, and the Royal Humane Society; C.D.WilliamsThe Seducations of Conduct: Pleasure and Conduct Literature; V.Jones'Strains of New Beauty': Handel and the Pleasures of Italian Opera, 1711-1728; D.AlsopThe Pleasures of Terror: Gender and the Sublime Revisited; E.J.CleryBurns and Wordsworth: Art and 'The Pleasure which There is in Life Itself'; S.ManningIndex.

'...well-conceived and interesting ...a major advance in the subject.' - Jeremy Black, The Economic History Review