Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 3

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-138-75265-8
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 382 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 870 g

This set reprints many of the 18th century's most notorious works, including eight from "The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head" (1707), that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some cases helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spedding, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements, Introduction, The Ladies Delight (1732), The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria, or Flowering Shrub (1732), Wisdom Revealed; or, The Tree of Life Discover’d and Describ’d (1732), Little Merlin’s Cave (1737), A New Description of Merryland (1741, for 1740), A Short Description of the Roads which Lead to that Delightful Country Called Merryland (1741), The Machine: or Love’s Preservative (1744?), Teague-Root Display’d: Being some useful and Important Discoveries Tending to Illustrate the Doctrine of Electricity (1746), Notes to the Texts