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Mighty lewd books : the development of pornography in eighteenth-century England

"Mighty Lewd Books provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality in an in-depth investigation of the development of pornography. Through the examination of more than 500 pieces of British erotica, it looks at sex as seen in culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth century, when erotic poems, salacious prints and obscene satires were sold in London coffee-shops, in taverns, on street corners and in various book-shops along the Strand and in Covent Garden." "This book explores popular images in erotica: female flagellants whipping their submissive charges; depraved monks corrupting innocent nuns; libertine rascals seducing young virgins; and rakes carousing with their whores. It also analyses the underworld of booksellers and distributors through trial records and witness depositions. Using the evidence of erotica, and taking a feminist approach within a framework of gender history, this book challenges the traditional view that women were generally seen as sexually passive."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2003
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 263 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9781403915009, 9781137033963, 9780230512573, 1403915008, 1137033967, 0230512577
51810468
Acknowledgements Contents List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction The Erotic Book Trade Bodily Fluids Erotica and Science Sexual Utopias in Erotica Anti-Catholic Erotica Flagellation Conclusion Appendix Illustrations Bibliography
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