Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment

Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment

Author: George Sebastian Rousseau

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780719019616

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De onderkant van Verlichting en tolerantie: (homo)sexualiteit, pornografie e.d. (o.a. over Fanny Hill) in de sociaal-politieke context van de Britse 18e eeuw. - De relevante artikelen zijn afzonderlijk ontsloten.


'Tis Nature's Fault

'Tis Nature's Fault

Author: Robert P. Maccubbin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780521347686

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This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability.


Erotica and the Enlightenment

Erotica and the Enlightenment

Author: Peter Wagner

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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The essays in this collection focus on the relations between erotic, discourse and ideologies or -mentalites- in the Enlightenment. Although the contributors - literary historians, historians, and art historians - differ in approach and methodology, their common ground is the analysis of various genres of Enlightenment discourse on sex. There is a particular stress on popular writings (sex guides; obscene satire; graphic erotica), which have been neglected by literary historians, as well as on the iconographic discourse in works of art. Approaching eighteenth-century culture on such a broad basis, the essays try to retrieve parts of a -lost world-, i.e. the complicated relations between the literary and popular discourse, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the ideologies and -mentalites- contained in or opposed to this discourse. The contributions thus shed light on important aspects of an age which determined the modern period."


Libertine Enlightenment

Libertine Enlightenment

Author: L. O'Connell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-11-14

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0230522815

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Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts. Discussing prostitutes and politicians, philosophers and charlatans, confidence tricksters and novelists, Libertine Enlightenment presents a fascinating overview of the sexual dimension of enlightened modernity.


Sexual Outcasts, 1750-1850: Sexual anatomies

Sexual Outcasts, 1750-1850: Sexual anatomies

Author: Ian McCormick

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780415201476

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Sexual Outcasts presents a wide range of texts selected to illustrate the diversity of responses to the concealed body and to the secret or forbidden sexual practices of 1750-1850. Each volume follows the means by which prohibitions and taboos were produced and circulated. The reader can therefore explore the processes that disciplined the representation of the body and the constuction of sexual outcasts.This four-volume set presents a wide range of textual material: criminal reports; scientific and medical publications; newspaper items; sex manuals; guidebooks; speculative accounts, and case histories. The variety of sources permits a multiple perspective on the body, sexual drives, gendered psychologies and perverse behaviour across the century.


Sex and Sexuality in Early America

Sex and Sexuality in Early America

Author: Merril D. Smith

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0814780687

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Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. This book addresses this neglected topic with original research covering a wide spectrum, from sexual behavior to sexual perceptions and imagery, and more.