When Flesh Becomes Word
An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature
Seiten
2004
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-516187-8 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-516187-8 (ISBN)
When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these--The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)--are famous "whore dialogues," dramatic conversations between an older, experienced woman and a younger, inexperienced maid. Previously unavailable in an affordable edition, these dialogues combine sex education, medical folklore, and erotic literature in a decidedly proto-pornographic form. This edition presents other important examples of libertine literature, including bawdy poetry, a salacious medical treatise, an irreverent travelogue, and a criminal biography. The combination of The combination of both popular and influential texts presented in this edition provides an accessible introduction to the variety of material available to eighteenth-century readers before the publication of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure in 1749.
Bradford K. Mudge is Professor of English at the University of Colorado and the author of The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.4.2004 |
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Zusatzinfo | 29 halftones & 5 line illus |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 244 mm |
Gewicht | 641 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-516187-4 / 0195161874 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-516187-8 / 9780195161878 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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