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Languages : en
Pages : 26
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The Temple of Prostitution: a Poem. Dedicated to the Greatest ***** in Her Majesty's Dominions. Written by a Woman of Fashion
The Temple of Prostitution: a Poem. Dedicated to the Greatest ***** in Her Majesty's Dominions. Written by a Woman of Fashion
Author: The Temple of Prostitution: a Poem. Dedicated to the Greatest ***** in Her Majesty's Dominions. Written by a Woman of Fashion
Author: The Temple of Prostitution
Author: Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 4
Author: Barbara M BenedictPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040247946
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This set reprints many of the 18th century's most notorious works, including eight from "The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head" (1707), that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some cases helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity.
Nightwalkers
Author: Laura RosenthalPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551114690
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
This anthology makes available for the first time a selection of narratives by and about prostitutes in the eighteenth century. These memoirs, some written by and some about eighteenth-century prostitutes, offer important insights into female experience and class and gender roles in the period. Portraying the lives of women in both success and hardship, written in voices ranging from repentant to bawdy, the memoirs show the complexity of the lives of the “nightwalkers.” For eighteenth-century readers, as Laura Rosenthal writes in her introduction, these memoirs “offered sensual and sentimental journeys, glimpses into high life and low life, and relentless confrontations with the explosive power of money and the vulnerability of those without it.” Offering a range of narratives from the conservative and reformist to the unabashedly libertine, this book provides a fascinating alternative look into eighteenth-century culture.
Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Infamous Commerce
Author: Laura J. RosenthalPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454344
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself. In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."
Monthly Review
Author: George Edward GriffithsPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Pickering & ChattoPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description