Ming Erotic Novellas: Genre, Consumption, and Religiosity in Cultural Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789629964580)

By analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material culture focuses on an erotic fiction genre, the marketing and consuming strategies behind it, and the Daoist allegory contained within. Richard Wang examines these works and their significance in the development of Ming-Qing fiction in light of the sociology of literature and Ming cultural context. Specific features of the presentation of eroticism in these novellas include the legitimation of sexuality in cosmological thinking, the moralization and politicalization of sexuality, the medical discourse on sexuality, pleasure prescribed by ars erotica, and the religious dimension of sexuality.

Author: Richard Wang
ISBN-10: 9629964589
ISBN-13: 9789629964580
Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2011
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/09/2011 pg. 17