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Paul Kelleher is associate professor of English at Emory University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Heterosexuality; or, A Problem in Modern Ethics
Chapter 1: Shaftesbury and the Beauty of Virtue
Chapter 2: Love Within Reason: Addison and Steele Among the Mollies
Chapter 3: Love in Excess and the Ecstasy of Sympathy
Chapter 4: Pamela and the Passion for Virtue
Chapter 5: Tom Jones and the Virtues of Sexuality
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Kelleher's analysis of the discourse of conjugal heterosexual desire as a state of moral transcendence that increases sympathy and understanding toward others makes a valuable contribution to the fields of Eighteenth Century studies, Affect Theory and scholarship on the history of sexuality.... Kelleher's exploration of conjugal heterosexual desire as morally enriching is a thought-provoking study that covers new ground and broadens future approaches to literature produced in both the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
— New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
Kelleher’s analysis is unique in its focus on the remediation of heterosexuality itself in these works.... Making Love presents a necessary argument that suggests challenging lines of inquiry into sexuality in literature and philosophy.
— The Shandean
The analyses of literature and philosophy in this monograph will be of strong interest and use to eighteenth-century scholars working on a wide range of topics precisely because of the broad impact of Kelleher’s central thesis. . . . It may seem dramatic to suggest that Making Love changes everything, but given Kelleher’s rich lessons, together with the massive reach of heterosexual hegemony, I am convinced that it does.
— Eighteenth-Century Fiction