Mighty Lewd Books

The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
2003
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1500-9
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 577 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peakman, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.