Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Jun 24, 2003 - Social Science - 263 pages
Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.

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Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
J. Peakman
Limited preview - 2003
Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
J. Peakman
No preview available - 2012
Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
Julie Peakman
No preview available - 2003

About the author (2003)

JULIE PEAKMAN is one of the most innovative of the young historians to emerge in the recent explosion of gender history. She lectures in Sex in History, is currently working on her second book on sexual behaviour in the eighteenth-century and is a fellow of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. She regularly appears at national and international conferences and in the media.

Bibliographic information

TitleMighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
AuthorJ. Peakman
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2003
ISBN1137033967, 9781137033963
Length263 pages
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History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Social History
Literary Criticism / General
Psychology / Human Sexuality
Social Science / Gender Studies
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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