The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Reveal'd Written in French by Nicholas de Venette, ... The 8th. Edition. Done Into English by a Gentleman. The Second Edition Corrected

The Mysteries of Conjugal Love Reveal'd Written in French by Nicholas de Venette, ... The 8th. Edition. Done Into English by a Gentleman. The Second Edition Corrected

Author: Nicolas Venette

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-23

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 9781385459324

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Cambridge University Library T170761 A translation of Venette's 'De la generation de l'homme'. London: printed in the year, 1707. [32],496p.; 8°


Heaven and the Flesh

Heaven and the Flesh

Author: Clive Hart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-12-07

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521495714

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Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritual salvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven and the Flesh Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions of poets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work not only of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton and Michelangelo, but also of lesser-known figures such as John Gore and Richard Tompson, and the sometimes anguished speculations of philosophers and theologians. As the evidence of witty pornographic poems and drawings demonstrates, the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension was not always treated with full seriousness. This wide-ranging survey offers sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.