Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists: Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction

by Keith McMahon

Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822315661
• ISBN13: 9780822315667
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"