Enlightened Virginity in Eighteenth-Century Literature

1. Introduction: Virginity and Patrilinear Legitimacy
Corrinne Harol

2. Blessed Virgins: Anti-Catholic Propaganda and Convent Fantasies
Corrinne Harol

3. The Hymen and Its Discontents: Medical Discourses on Virginity
Corrinne Harol

4. Hymen Humor: Ballads and the Matter of Virginity
Corrinne Harol

5. Virgin Idols and Verbal Devices: Pope’s Belinda and the Virgin Mary
Corrinne Harol

6. Faking It: Virtue, Satire, and Pamela’s Virginity
Corrinne Harol

7. Novel Virgins: Libertine and Literary Pleasures in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Corrinne Harol

8. Conclusion: Clarissa’s Exceptional Infertility
Corrinne Harol

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Gender Studies, Literary History, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Christianity