Turned to Account
Turned to Account

Author: Lincoln B. Faller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-09-25

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780521326728

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Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biography, examining how it played upon and reflected English society's fears and interest in aberrant behaviour. Faller examines ways in which ordinary Englishmen read, wrote and presumably thought on the subject of criminal actions and character.

Amatory Pleasures
Amatory Pleasures

Author: Julie Peakman

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1474226469

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Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen's homosocial 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. Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates and examines how Georgian sexual activity was integrated from low life and high places, from brothels to palaces. Aimed at anyone interested in gender, history of sexuality, sex, literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable collection of the work of a key scholar in the field.

Death is a Good Solution
Death is a Good Solution

Author: Anthony William Baker

Publisher: St. Lucia, Qld., Australia : University of Queensland Press ; Lawrence, Mass. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Technical Impex Corporation

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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