...Bradford Mudge Sir Joshua's Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra is a celebrated picture, one often taken as a representative of what are referred to as Reynolds's “courtesan portraits,” portraits of women—actresses, mistresses, models, prostitutes—who, in a variety of ways and with varying degrees...

... for the Benefit of Deserted Girls and Penitent Prostitutes Fielding’s Plan was one of several proposals considered in the competition that led to the building of the Magdalen House. His utilitarian scheme to build a public laundry staffed by “Girls of the Poor” and reformed prosti- tutes differed from...

...James Grantham Turner Laura J. Rosenthal. Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture (Ithaca: Cornell Univ., 2006). Pp. 270. $49.50. £28.50. ISBN 978-0-8014-4404-3 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay...

...Pamela Cheek Kushner Nina . Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris . ( Ithaca : Cornell Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xi + 295 . $35 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay Demi...

..., and License in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Palgrave, 2004). Pp. 256. 7 ills. $65.00 ISBN 1-4039-1763-9 Sophie Carter. Purchasing Power: Representing Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century English Popular Print Culture . British Art and Visual Culture Since 1750 (Burlington: Ashgate, 2004). Pp. 224. 37...

..., these two books have little in common. Both authors are fascinated by the figure of the prostitute in her various guises, it is true, but there are significant differences between what each does with that changing figure, what questions each asks, and why. Even whether the figure is cen- tral...

... Spanish wine or Neapolitan prostitutes. After this period, Europeans no longer needed defending; the more important debates, as I will show, were about race and gender. Yet nationalist prejudice occasionally reoccurred. Around 1797, with En- gland and France yet again the bitterest of enemies...

... contemporaries liked to claim.10 Out of sight of their elders, Grand Tourists could at least theoretically hire prostitutes, seduce maidservants, or polish their man- ners and language skills in affairs with a higher class of women. It has even been suggested that sexual activity was tacitly encouraged as long...

... other boroughs, in which the franchise was more exclusive.16 Westminster’s urban setting, with all its attendant vices such as crime and prostitution, contributed to the indelicacy of Geor- giana’s canvassing, to which rumors emerged that the duchess had traded...

... prostitution, and bawdy houses were located throughout the city, not just in the port area. People from all classes, women as well as men, regularly enjoyed casual sexual behavior, and a permissive atti- tude continued relatively unchecked until the nineteenth century, despite an explosion in venereal...

... set in relief against the “Vertu- ous Lady in Habit grave . . . with Distaff , Wheel, and Woollen Gown.”25 In a bawdy song titled “Naked Buff ; or, the Downfall of the Callicoes” (1721), prostitutes top a long list of women deprived of the fashionable fabric: The Callico Trade, Which...

... seventeenth and early eighteenth centu- ries viewed women’s vices, most notably prostitution, only as they affected men. The vice of prostitution, although, of course, sinful for the indi- vidual woman, represented a far greater threat for the nation’s men: in- dulging...

...: Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 2006). Pp. 294. 9 ills. $20 paper. ISBN 0-87328-202-7 Primer, Irwin. Bernard Mandeville’s “A Modest Defence of Publick Stews”: Prostitution and Its Discontents in Early Georgian England (New York: Palgrave, 2006). Pp. 208. $65. ISBN 1-4039-7166-8. $22.95...

...”; and two pets identify the actress as a prostitute. “Squirrel” was eighteenth- century slang for prostitute, which explains why that animal adores herself in the mirror; and because in allegories of the five senses the sharp-beaked bird, such as the parrot, was the emblem...

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...-representation (or con- struction) which cannot be immediately challenged.”20 Not expecting a response from Condon except in the form of payment—a transaction that imitates the politics of prostitution that Love-letters describes—Behn opens up the letter to include the blank space at the heart of fiction mak...

... Summers reveals an environment that included, among other things, fights and dueling, constant noise from the orange-ladies and prostitutes selling their wares, a general masquerade in which women from all classes donned the vizards, and a clamor of wits loudly criticizing the play or the actors.9...

... the jealous, and to blind the malicious.”62 A 1676 epilogue maintains, in an ironic reversal, that masks first belonged to prostitutes and that it is women of quality who have now begun to appropriate them: ECL24304-031-Pritchard.jm 44 1/1/01...

... of prostitution and for the numerous adulteries and elopements that we hear of in the different parts of the kingdom. Evils of Adultery and Prostitution (1792)1 My avidity for books daily increased: I subscribed to a circulating library, and frequently read, or rather devoured— little careful...

..., replete as that corpus is with scenes of seduction, rape, incest, adultery, bigamy, and prostitution. But the predominance of that critical focus over the years has, to my mind, served to overshadow the equally prevalent and relevant component of Behn’s work that is the subject of this essay...