Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 332 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
British libertine literature before Fanny Hill (1749) -- 1: The school of Venus (1680) -- 2: The pleasure of a single life (1701), The fifteen comforts of Cuckoldom (1706), and the fifteen plagues of a maiden-head (1707) -- 3: Gonosologium Novum (1709) -- 4: Venus in the cloister (1725) -- 5: A dialogue between a married lady and a maid (1740) -- 6: A new description of merryland (1741) -- 7: The female husband (1746) |
Summary |
When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these--The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)--are famous "whore dialogues," dramatic conversations between an older, experienced woman and a younger, inexperienced maid. Previously unavailable in an affordable edition, these dialogues combine sex; education, medical folklore, and erotic literature in a decidedly proto-pornographic form. This edition presents other important examples of libertine literature, including bawdy poetry, a salacious medical treatise, an irreverent travelogue, and a criminal biography. The combination of The combination of both popular and influential texts; presented in this edition provides an accessible introduction to the variety of material available to eighteenth-century readers before the publication of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure in 1749 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Erotic literature, English.
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English literature -- 18th century.
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Libertinism -- Literary collections
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Erotic literature, English
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Libertinism
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Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Mudge, Bradford Keyes
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ISBN |
9780198036616 |
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0198036612 |
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1602567743 |
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9781602567740 |
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9780195161878 |
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0195161874 |
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1280532769 |
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9781280532764 |
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9780195161885 |
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0195161882 |
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0195185773 |
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9780195185775 |
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9786610532766 |
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6610532761 |
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1433700956 |
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9781433700958 |
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