Excitable imaginations : eroticism and reading in Britain, 1660-1760 / Kathleen Lubey.

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press : Lanham, Md. : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012], ©2012.

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-266) and index.

Eroticism and the eighteenth-century imagination -- Imperfect enjoyments: errors of the imagination in Restoration England -- "Too great warmth": Joseph Addison, Eliza Haywood, and the pleasures of reading -- "Something greatly awful": what sex does in early novels -- Sex as form: the aesthetic pedagogies of John Cleland and William Hogarth -- Coda philosophy's erotic forms.