Julie Peakman (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Amatory Pleasures

Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Encompassing the long 18th century, this reader examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, erotic gardens, gentlemen's secret societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating between mainstream and covert activities of the 18th century"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9781474226448
• ISBN-10: 1474226442
• Artikelnr.: 42857332

Autorenporträt

Julie Peakman

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature 3.
Perverse Acts 4. Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica
5. The Eighteenth-Century Erotic Garden 6. Initiation, Defloration and
Flagellation: Sexual Propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure 7.
Blaming and Shaming in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Print
Culture 8. Memoirs of Women of Pleasure: The Whore Biography 9. 'The Best
Freind in the World' : The Relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen
Maria Carolina of Naples 10. The History of Sexuality Debate Bibliography
Index