Screen LibraryMisers, shrews, and polygamists：sexuality and male-female relations in eighteenth-century Chinese fiction
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Duke University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Durham |
| Publication Dates: | 1995. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 378 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0822315556 (cloth : acid-free paper) 9780822315551 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0822315661 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 9780822315667 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | D669 |
| CLC: |
D669.1 I206 |
| Call Number: | D669.1/M167 |
| Contents: |
Exchange. Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-340) and index. Potent polygamists and chaste monogamists -- Polygamy according to fiction and prescriptive models -- Shrews and jealousy in seventeenth and eighteenth-century vernacular fiction -- The self-containing man: the miser and ascetic -- The chaste "beauty-scholar" romance and the superiority of the talented woman -- The erotic scholar-beauty romance -- A case for Confucian sexuality: chaste polygamy in Yesou Puyan -- Polygyny, crossing of gender, and the superiority of women in Honglou Meng -- The overly virtuous wife and the wastrel polygamist in Lin Lan Xiang -- The spoiled son and the doting mother in Qilu Deng -- The other scholar and beauty: the wastrel and the prostitute in Lüye Xianzong -- The benevolent polygamist and the domestication of sexual pleasure in Shenlou Zhi -- Ernü Yingxiong Zhuan as antidote to Honglou Meng -- Promiscuous polygyny and male self-critique -- Glossary of Chinese characters. |