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

• Main Author: Peakman, Julie, 1957- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
• Subjects: Ερωτική λογοτεχνία, Αγγλική > Ιστορία και κριτική; Αγγλική λογοτεχνία > 18ος αιώνας > Ιστορία και κριτική; Πορνογραφία > Αγγλία > Ιστορία > 18ος αιώνας.; Erotica > England > History > 18th century.; Σεξουαλική συμπεριφορά; Σεξουαλική ψυχολογία.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Erotica or Pornography?
• The Erotic Book Trade
• Bodily Fluids
• Erotica and Science
• Sexual Utopias in Erotica
• Anti-Catholic Erotica
• Flagellation
• Conclusion.