sex in literature

Provides a collection of critical essays on Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God, exploring it from numerous and diverse perspectives, including race, gender, and class.

A guide to young adult literature that features authentic and teen-relatable information on healthy adolescent sexuality.

A guide to young adult literature dealing with sex and sexuality to assist public and school librarians in developing selection policies in the subject area and sharing the policy with teachers, parents, administrators, and teens. Includes reviews of more than one hundred books with ratings on sexual content, language, and violence, as well as recommended age levels and the usage of words that may spark controversy.

Discusses the treatment of sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout history.

A collection of essays that track dynamics in American sexuality in relation to religion and national identity, as seen in American literature, since the Puritan movement of the seventeenth century.

A collection of critical essays that examines sexuality in the comedies of William Shakespeare, including "The Taming of the Shrew," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and featuring biographical and critical information about the author.

Examines the meaning of moral responsibility in literature and our everyday lives, tracing the tragic arc of Western literature and culture as it explores the notion of "forbidden knowledge," from the sexual innocence of Adam and Eve to the awe-inspiring discoveries of modern scientists who have created the atomic bomb and recombinant DNA.

Contains nineteen critical essays that explore themes of human sexuality in various works, such as Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale, " James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, " Thomas Hardy's "Tess of the D'Urbervilles, " and others.