...Bradford Mudge [email protected] Kathleen Lubey . What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century ( Stanford : Stanford Univ. , 2022 ). Pp. xix + 288. $28 . Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Once upon a time, 1857...

...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...

.... Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Palgrave, 2004). Pp. 256. 7 ills. $65.00 ISBN 1-4039-1763-9 Frances Ferguson. Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004). Pp. 181. $18.00, £13.00 paper. ISBN 0-226...

... ills. $85 • When I offer my undergraduate course on the eighteenth-century novel, I call it “Realism, Pornography, and the Rise of the Novel: Defoe to de Sade.” Some of my colleagues regard this title as merely a cheap marketing ploy and a reflec- tion of my...

... Scholar Genuine Memoirs of Maria Brown pornography erotic literature Fanny Hill Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

... eighteenth-century emotion social class Cleland prostitution pornography Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 ...

.... The first chapter tells the compelling story of Richardson’s crafty interventions in the marketing mania for Pamela. Keymer and Sabor successfully articulate the stages by which the book was marketed: first based on piety, then as pornography, and finally for its pedagogical value. And they provide...

..., pornography, the chronique scandaleuse, the Arabian Nights, and classical French fiction.4 Only four late chapters ( Defoe, Jour- nalism, and the Early English Novel by J. Paul Hunter; Swift, Satire, and the Novel, by Claude Rawson; The Pamela Debate by Thomas Lockwood; and Clarissa and Tom Jones, by J...

... presented to readers of this enduringly popular miscellany before considering what the inclusion of its pornographic “cabinet” reveals about Rochester's complicated reception history. Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Rochester Curll miscellany cabinet pornography...

... of Pornography (N.Y.: Pantheon, 1978); Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1990). 6. The Marquis de Sade (Boston: Twayne, 1984). 7. Oeuvres, 3 vols. (Paris: Gallimard, 1990–98). 110 8. Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de...

... century. Along the way, McKeon shows how these processes of what he calls “explicitation,” separation, and domestication work through discourses of Protestantism, the market, the public sphere, the state, the fam- ily, public opinion, civil society, and through such forms as pornography, satire...

... in the Ancien Régime (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1994); Antoine de Baecque, Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths under the French Revolution (New York: Routledge, 2001); Elizabeth Colwill, “Pass as a Woman, Act like a Man: Marie Antoinette as Tribade in the Pornography of the French Revolution,” in Marie...

... (Toronto: Univ. of Toronto, 2004). Pp. 154. $45. ISBN 0-8020-3540-x Mowry, Melissa M. The Bawdy Politic in Stuart England, 1660 – 1714: Political Pornography and Prostitution (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004). Pp. 173. $69.95. ISBN 0-7546-4157-0 Palmer, Michael A. Command at Sea: Naval...

... + 132. $8.95 paper Wyngaard, Amy S. Bad Books: Rétif de la Bretonne, Sexuality, and Pornography (Newark: Univ. of Delaware, 2013). Pp. x + 149. 14 ills. $65 Ziskin, Rochelle. Sheltering Art: Collecting and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-­ Century Paris (University Park...

.... The pleasure definition did not vanish but contin- ued in certain genres, so that representation “bifurcated” into “the passionate whore of pornography” and the suffering, anesthetized, self-alienated victim shown by the moral reformers (9). This assuages the most obvious objection to the pleasure...

...; as DeMaria argues, Plutarch is ethical while Johnson is empirical. In “Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and the Culture of Pornography,” Robert Folkenflik pro- vides an engagingly detailed treatment of the context, genesis, and reception of eighteenth-­century England’s most enduring piece of dirty work...

... on medical writings as pornography see Bynum, “Treating the Wages of Sin,” pp.␣ 14–15, and P eter Wagner, “The Discourse on Sex—Or Sex as Discourse: Eigh- 44 teenth-Century Medical and Paramedical Erotica,” in Rousseau and Porter, Sexual Under- worlds of the Enlightenment, pp. 46–68. A good...

..., the fascination of worldly conjugal practices is presented not in epistemological terms but as a form of curiosity.13 Not that we should take this at face value. It is hard to suppose that readers of the genre were simply curious: these texts— part ethnography, part pornography...

... and the Church of Ireland, 1710 – 1724 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2002). Pp. 192. $49.50. ISBN 0-7165-2728-6 Ferguson, Frances. Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago, 2004). Pp. 181. $18, £13 paper. ISBN 0-226-24321-4 Fitzsimmons, Michael...

...-84559-005-9 Mudge, Bradford K. The Whore’s Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684–1830 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2000). Pp. xiv + 276. $35. ISBN 0-19- 513505-9 Nester, William R. “Haughty...