Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture

Sex, Commerce and Morality
Herausgeber: Ellis, Markman; Lewis, Ann

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Produktbeschreibung

The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was represented in popular culture of the time, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781138661509
• ISBN-10: 1138661503
• Artikelnr.: 45219242

Autorenporträt

Ann Lewis, Markman Ellis

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Venal Bodies - Prostitutes and Eighteenth-Century Culture,
Markman Ellis, Ann Lewis; Chapter 1 Classifying the Prostitute in
Eighteenth-Century France, Ann Lewis; Chapter 2 In Her Own Words: an
Eighteenth-Century Madam Tells Her Story, Kathryn Norberg; Chapter 3 'All
the World Knows Her Storie': Aphra Behn and the Duchess of Mazarin,
Claudine van Hensbergen; Chapter 4 Marie Petit's Persian Adventure
(1705-8): the Eastward Travels of a French 'Concubine', Katherine
MacDonald; Chapter 5 'A First-rate Whore': Prostitution and Empowerment in
the Early Eighteenth Century, Lena Olsson; Chapter 6 Prostitutes and Erotic
Performances in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Thomas Wynn; Chapter 7 Visible
Prostitutes: Mandeville, Hogarth and 'A Harlot's Progress', Charlotte
Grant; Chapter 8 The Narrative Sources of Candide's Paquette, Edward
Langille; Chapter 9 The Prostitute as Neo-Manager: Sade's Juliette and the
New Spirit of Capitalism, Olivier Delers; Chapter 10 Figuring the London
Magdalen House: Mercantilist Hospital, Sentimental Asylum or
Proto-Evangelical Penitentiary?, Mary Peace; Chapter 11 Mothers and Others:
Sexuality and Maternity in the Histories of Some of the Penitents in the
Magdalen-House (1760), Jennie Batchelor; Chapter 12 Making a Living by
'Indecency': Life Stories of Prostitutes in Christiania, Norway, Johanne
Bergkvist; Chapter 13 Male Prostitution and the Emergence of the Modern
Sexual System: Eighteenth-Century London, Randolph Trumbach;