...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...

..., 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...

...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...

... 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...

... to the physical health of its characters, such as Fanny’s mild smallpox in childhood, Mr. Norbert’s “flimsy consumptive texture,” and Mr. Crofts’s aggressive sexual impotence. We see these facets of the novel as being consistent with Cleland’s regular concern, evident from his letters, for the health of his...

... to Virtue Ethics , ed. Daniel C. Russell (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 2013), 124–48; the quotation is from 127. 77. The quoted phrase is from Jenkins, “The Puzzle of Fanny Price,” 353. 76. Kitsi-Mitakou, in “Narratives of Absolutism,” also cites this line, to support her reading of Mary...

... omissions. She discovers four moral episodes that constitute the core of the novel: the decision of the Ber- trams to take their poor niece, Fanny Price, into their home to be raised, a common occurrence even in Austen’s own family; the significant implications of landscape “improvement...

...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...

..., in part, on examples and views held in her own family, Austen shows that a hero must be more than a devoted suitor or an accomplished member of his profession; he must be a dedicated citizen who cares about the needs of people from all classes. Only such a man is worthy of a Fanny Price, an Emma Woodhouse...

... of Sense and Sensibility, a plethora of minor references to the Dashwood line of  baronets suggests links to the Dashwood family. Most obviously, the name Fanny (short for Frances) Dashwood may tar Austen’s most transparently invidious character with the infamy of Sir Francis Dashwood, which would...

... Burney, ed. Slava Klima, Garry Bowers, and Kerry S. Grant (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska, ) CJL The Court Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney,   general ed. Peter Sabor, vols. (Oxford: Oxford Univ., ) EJL The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny...

... and remind us that Burney, while not actually a practicing novelist at this time, had not left her craft behind. In her Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III (2002), Hester Davenport cited the lack of a “full, scholarly text for the years of Fanny’s appointment at court...

... (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ., ); Chisholm, Fanny Burney: Her Life (London: Chatto and Windus, ); and Claire Harman, Fanny Burney: A Biography (London: Harper Collins, These accounts are largely based on information in Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (Oxford: Clarendon...

... Proper Relations in F. Burney’s Court Journals and Letters  7 over to Fanny’s futile, fluttering little intrigues to break away from the equerries at tea.”20 If Burney found that tea time provided fruitful material for exercising her skills in rendering lively dramatic dialogue for the enter...

... admittedly did little more than scratch the surface where the subject of Burney and old age is concerned. As I quipped there, we have Winifred Gérin’s The Young Fanny Burney and Anna Bird Stewart’s Young Miss Burney, but no titles trumpeting Old Fanny Burney or Old Madame d’Arblay. In Burney’s...