Author: Julie Peakman Publisher: ISBN: 9781138765931 Category : Prostitutes Languages : en Pages : 0
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Focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets. These provide sources for the study of sexuality, gender, women's studies and the literature and history of the eighteenth century.
Author: Julie Peakman Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040243592 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 244
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Across eight volumes, this two-part collection of selected texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets.
Author: Julie Peakman Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040251323 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 813
Book Description
Across eight volumes, this two-part collection of selected texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets.
Author: Julie Peakman Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040251307 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
Across eight volumes, this two-part collection of selected texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets.
Author: Julie Peakman Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040249019 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 385
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Across eight volumes, this two-part collection of selected texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets.
Author: Ann Lewis Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131732286X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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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.
Author: Gail Marshall Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1040250378 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 212
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Focuses on David Garrick and the leading actors of his company at Drury Lane. This book tells how, in their time, Garrick, Macklin and Woffington were as famous for their achievements on the stage as they were infamous for their activities off it. It draws a selection of the actors' own words with those of their contemporaries and critics.
Author: A. Culley Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137274220 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
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British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others.
Author: Barbara White Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0752493884 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 342
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Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman’s heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. She rose from life in the ‘London stews’ to fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class courtesan. She was seduced and then abandoned, aged just 12, by Jack Spencer, grandson of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (and related to the Althorp-based Spencers). Her luck turned when she caught the eye of the infamous Beau Nash, ‘King of Bath’. But it was her time in London that promoted her to national fame and notoriety. After ten years at the top, she was heavily in debt, but managed to secure an arranged marriage to a respectable man. The scandals of her past caught up with her as she was named in the national scandal surrounding Wilke’s pornography case at the High Court.
Author: Kathleen Lubey Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 1503633128 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 380
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What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is—a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual description. Lubey's readings show that pornography always had a social consciousness—that it knew, long before anti-pornography feminists said it, that women and nonbinary people are disadvantaged by a society that grants sexual privilege to men. Rather than glorify this inequity, Lubey argues, the genre's central task has historically been to expose its artifice and envision social reform. Centering women's bodies, pornography refuses to divert its focus from genital action, forcing readers to connect sex with its social outcomes. Lubey offers a surprising take on a deeply misunderstood cultural form: pornography transforms sexual description into feminist commentary, revealing the genre's deep knowledge of how social inequities are perpetuated as well as its plans for how to rectify them.
Author: Julie Peakman
Author: Julie Peakman
Author: Julie Peakman
Author: Julie Peakman
Author: Julie Peakman
Author: Ann Lewis
Author: Gail Marshall
Author: A. Culley
Author: Barbara White
Author: Kathleen Lubey