...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...

...Peter Wagner This essay reflects on the way my research on eighteenth-century erotica in general, and Fanny Hill in particular, affected my career as an academic in Europe from the 1970s to the 1990s. Still far from being generally accepted subjects of serious academic work, erotica and pornography...

...Hal Gladfelder In the wake of the court cases that led to the clearing for publication of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , a handful of publishers rushed other more or less erotic eighteenth-century novels into print, eager to cash in on the new celebrity of Fanny Hill (as it was usually known...

...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...

...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...

..., including Cleland’s interests in ancient and medieval history, and their bearing on eighteenth-century culture. Hal Gladfelder’s Fanny Hill in Bombay (2012) has drawn intriguing parallels between Fanny and the empowered Druidesses who occupy Cleland’s idealized Celtic world. Proceeding from this point, I...

... performing sexual acts. In “Fanny’s Feeling,” I argue instead that Fanny Hill tells the story of the heroine’s development of emotional sophistication, which provides the key to her success. Other novelists, such as Samuel Richardson and Eliza Hay-wood, depict characters that acquire emotion sophistication...

...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...

...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...

...-replaced-by-commerce thesis, which is that Fanny Hill blatantly contradicts it. Rosenthal does valuable work bringing “reformist” texts to light (for example, the couplets of Samuel Jackson Pratt on 34); they can be usefully compared to similar pathos-driven yet hyperrealistic vignettes...

... chapter’s meditation on desire, transformation, and the Methodist body leads perfectly to the surprising and compelling third chapter, on Fanny Hill and its overlap with Methodist and anti-Methodist discourses of desire and 110   Eighteenth-Century Life corporeality. Chapter 4, “Actors and Ghosts...

..., Jean Henri Samuel. Correspondence (1711–1797), ed. Jens Häseler (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003). Pp. 473. €75. ISBN 2-7453-0781-9 Fowler, Patsy, and Alan Jackson, eds. Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and Its Influence. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century, no. 41 (New York: AMS...

... moral error she commits in the novel” (127), insulting Miss Bates at Box Hill, and thereby reveals a great deal about how class and morality are related in the microcosm that is Highbury. Occasionally, as in the case of Harriet Smith and Robert Martin, I would take issue with Scheuermann’s...

..., as it appears now. down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate,” may yet be innocent of similar sexual innuendo (49 – 50). Then again, at West Wycombe a hill was never just a hill. The most famous of the garden buildings was the Temple of Venus, which perched...

.... $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...

... Classes of Society in Great Britain, Resulting from their Respective Stations, Professions, and Employments (London: B. and J. White, 1794), 580, 583 88, 624, from The Making of the Modern World, Part I: The Goldsmiths - Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450 1850 (Farmington Hills: Gale, 2003...

... the stories of Mrs. Hill, Henrietta Belfield, and Priscilla Harrel, undermines Parliament’s claims about the economic outcomes of heiresses’ marital choices. The economic plot eventually usurps the courtship plot, leading to a dystopian conclusion that tacitly argues marriage itself is the problem...

.... Jean Hecht, Bridget Hill, Michael McKeon, Ruth Perry, Lawrence Stone, and Naomi Tadmor. She also sets up the theoretical background that informs much of Domestic Affairs. The “semi- otics of servants’ sexuality,” which she views as being “grounded in both their social and economic mobility...

.... The Education of the Heart: The Correspondence of Rachel Mordecai Lazarus and Maria Edgeworth, ed. Edgar E. MacDonald (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, 1977), 246 – ​47. 25. Alex. Charles Ewald, “Lucy Hutchinson,” Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 683 [683 – ​93]. 26. Emily Friedman has...