ISBN:
0199209146
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9780199209149
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 323 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Imagining Sex : Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England
DDC:
306.77
Keywords:
Pornography History 17th century
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Erotic literature, English History and criticism
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Human body in literature
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English literature History and criticism Early modern, 1500-1700
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Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Imagining Sex examines a variety of material from seventeenth-century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. Analysing representations of sex and eroticism in historical context, the book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns. - ;Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Circulation of Texts: Publishers and Readers; 2. 'What a Fountain of Joys': Reproduction and Sexual Pleasure; 3. 'New from Battersy': Fantasies of Sexual Flagellation; 4. 'An Extraordinary Satisfaction': Imagining Homosexuality; 5. 'Erotopolis': Voyeurism and the Illusion of Privacy; 6. 'Unexpected Bed Fellows': The Comic and the Erotic; 7. 'The Naked Truth': Images of Bodies and Sex; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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