How Long to Read Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing

How Long Does it Take to Read Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 41 minutes to read Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing by Adam Komisaruk

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Romantic age, though often associated with free erotic expression, was ambivalent about what if anything sex had to do with the public sphere. Late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century British texts often repressed the very sexual energies they claimed to be bringing into the open. The delineation of what could and could not be said and done in the name of physical pleasure was of a piece with the capitalist consecration of the social trust to the individual profit-motive. Both these practices, moreover, presupposed a determinate self with sovereignty over its own interests. Writings from and about some nominally public institutions were thus characterized by privatism—a sexual, economic and ontological withdrawal from otherness. Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing: A Public of One explores how this threefold ideology was both propagated and resisted, wittingly and unwittingly, successfully and unsuccessfully, in such Romantic "publics" as rape-law, sodomy-law, adultery-law, high-profile scandals, the population debates, and club-culture. It includes readings of imaginative literature by William Beckford, William Blake, Erasmus Darwin, Mary Hays, Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft; works of political economy by Jeremy Bentham, William Cobbett, William Godwin, William Hazlitt and Thomas Robert Malthus; as well as contemporary legal treatises, popular journalism and satirical pamphlets.

How long is Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing?

Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing by Adam Komisaruk is 216 pages long, and a total of 55,296 words.

This makes it 73% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 2 minutes to read Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing aloud.

What Reading Level is Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing?

Sexual Privatism in British Romantic Writing is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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