Amatory pleasures : explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture /
"Encompassing the long 18th century, this reader examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, erotic gardens, gentlemen's secret societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and t...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1353538 |
Table of Contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature
- 3. Perverse Acts
- 4. Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Metaphor in Erotica
- 5. The Eighteenth-Century Erotic Garden
- 6. Initiation, Defloration and Flagellation: Sexual Propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- 7. Blaming and Shaming in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
- 8. Memoirs of Women of Pleasure: The Whore Biography
- 9. 'The Best Freind in the World' : The Relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples
- 10. The History of Sexuality Debate
- Bibliography
- Index.