...). In one case, the 1963 Lancer edition of the “suppressed sequel to Fanny Hill,” Memoirs of a Coxcomb , the work in question was certainly Cleland’s. But in two other cases, mildly racy eighteenth-century “memoirs” were blazoned on their covers as “by the Author of Fanny Hill,” despite the absence of any...

...Mark Blackwell Gladfelder Hal . Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. , 2012 ). Pp. xii + 311 . $54.95 Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Review Essay Should John...

...Richard Terry; Helen Williams Our essay documents some of the issues we faced as modern editors of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49). We were conscious of the groundbreaking earlier editions of Peter Sabor and Peter Wagner, and also of the particular difficulties posed...

...Simon Stern This essay discusses John Cleland’s novel The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49), better known as Fanny Hill ), in the context of eighteenth-century obscenity law and the law of search and seizure. To explain why obscenity could have been treated as a criminal offense at all...

...Carolyn D. Williams Attempts to find connections between Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Cleland’s etymological tracts, in which he attempted to recover the ancient Celtic language, have, so far, met with mixed success. The most promising approach is to relate them to their broader contexts...

...Laura J. Rosenthal While appreciating the author’s skill, critics have nevertheless characterized John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure as little more than a string of pornographic vignettes held together with the barest of plots and populated by superficial characters mechanically...

...Peter Sabor This essay envisages what a new scholarly edition of John Cleland’s notorious novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748 – 49), might provide. Drawing on digital resources such as ECCO, it could readily refer to the full range of Cleland’s numerous publications, and taking advantage...

...Jaydeep Chipalkatti John Cleland’s novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill ) is a classic of eighteenth- century English erotica. This article contains a brief discussion of some of the linguistic and stylistic decisions taken by the author in his Marathi translation...

...Clorinda Donato This study charts the resonance of John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , known more commonly as Fanny Hill , in the Italian peninsula in the long eighteenth century. It discusses and compares four different editions of Italian translations of the novel as well as its...

... of these documents is a now well-known letter from the imprisoned novelist John Cleland to Newcastle’s law clerk Lovel Stanhope, in which Cleland compares his own case to that of “the Son of a Dean and Grandson of a Bishop [who] was mad and wicked enough to Publish a Pamphlet evidently in defence of Sodomy...

...Norbert Schürer While John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , also known as Fanny Hill , seems to be mostly obsessed with sexual activity, it is actually just as much about the burgeoning free-market capitalist economy of mid- eighteenth-century England. In the explicit references...

... of the work (an aspect of the texts Lubey does not discuss). So, does Richardson want the reader of Pamela to get hot or not? Even Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49) is more than mere por- nography, Lubey argues, for Cleland’s highly metaphorical representations of sexual scenes—as well...

... and the causes of human behavior: Bunyan’s account in Grace Abounding (1666) of the word of God darting into his mind and leading him to believe and do things; Fielding’s account of “Lust,” “Pride,” and “Fear” leading Lady Booby to do certain things; and Cleland’s rich tropological descriptions...

... that characterized eighteenth-century source texts. (124) Explaining in her own way, in other words, how 1857 became a watershed year, Lubey goes on to connect the editing of The Human Heart and its companion text, The Child of Nature , to adaptations of works by Rochester and Cleland, and in so doing makes...

... of, will not find out in this chapter. The episto- lary ship sails on, briefly stopping at a British brothel (John Cleland s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1748 49), before heading back in Bowers s final para- graph to foreign territories (Jean- Jacques Rousseau s Julie, 1761, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe s...

... life. Machines, seen as artifi cial life, merely mimicked humans. In John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Coxcomb (1751), for example, the frustrated narrator Sir William Delamore demonstrates this distinction between mechanism and real life when he explains Agnes’s rejection of what he considers natural...

.... $90 Gikandi, Simon. Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton: Princeton Univ., 2011). Pp. 386. 73 ills. $45. Gill, Stephen. Wordsworth’s Revisitings (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2011). Pp. vii + 265. $45 Gladfelder, Hal. Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland...

...” who can “guard our Martial Thistle with the Roses” (Watson, 1:11). From yet a different political and religious perspective, the author of ten stanzas of “Hallow my Fancy,” Colonel William Cleland, was a covenanting poet who, according to David Daiches, “consciously tried to establish a non...

... a pejorative term for the correspondents, who were not particularly religious), sinister (of a “mysterious dingy nature” and nicknamed “the Cyclops” because of his monocle), a source of pornography (he lent a copy of Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure to the Margrave of Baden), generally unreliable...