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Author : Charles Reginald DAWES
Release : 1943
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Book Synopsis A Study of Erotic Literature in England, Considered with Special Reference to Social Life by : Charles Reginald DAWES
Download or read book A Study of Erotic Literature in England, Considered with Special Reference to Social Life written by Charles Reginald DAWES. This book was released on 1943. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. v. Murat
Release : 2019-09-24
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis A Study of Erotic Literature in England by : W. v. Murat
Download or read book A Study of Erotic Literature in England written by W. v. Murat. This book was released on 2019-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work fills a gap as it attempts to offer a history of erotic literature published in the United Kingdom. The word Study in the title is perhaps a bit exaggerated as the material is largely taken from the now well known bibliographies by Pisanus Fraxi (Henry Spencer Ashbee) and quotations from the books themselves. The time line is WW II. Who was the author? He may have been Charles Reginald Dawes (1879-1964) who is supposed to have written (but not published) a text of this or a similar title. His profession or his activities are not known - he once called himself a writer but library catalogues credit him only with two publications: The Marquis de Sade (Paris 1927) and Retif de la Bretonne (London 1946, privately printed). He may have been a popular writer under pseudonyms, though. Dawes owned a good erotica collection which he willed to the British Museum Library; that would explain why the author of this Study - if he was Dawes - could quote freely from erotic texts which only few of his contemporaries would have had available. The main merits of this book are that the author was thoroughly familiar with English (and French) erotic literature and that he put his material in chronological order and in context. The editor added a number of references, illustrations and indices of personal names and titles to facilitate navigation.
Author : Joseph W. Slade
Release : 2001
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Pornography and Sexual Representation by : Joseph W. Slade
Download or read book Pornography and Sexual Representation written by Joseph W. Slade. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three volume reference guide to the available literature concerning pornography and sexual representation in America.
Author : Iain McCalman
Release : 1988-03-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Radical Underworld by : Iain McCalman
Download or read book Radical Underworld written by Iain McCalman. This book was released on 1988-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between the anti-Jacobin government "Terror" of the 1790s and the beginnings of Chartism. The book traces for the first time the history of theunderground revolutionary-republican grouping founded by the agrarian reformer, Thomas Spence. Challenging conventional distinctions between "high" and "low" culture, McCalman illuminates the darker, more populist sides of Romanticism. Radical Underworld broadens the conventional boundaries ofpopular politics and culture by exploring a political underworld connected with poverty, crime, prophetic religion, and literary culture.
Author : Sarah Toulalan
Release : 2007-09-06
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Imagining Sex by : Sarah Toulalan
Download or read book Imagining Sex written by Sarah Toulalan. This book was released on 2007-09-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books, and pamphlets) as well as poetry, drama and more specialised medical books. The book analyses representations of sex, sexuality and eroticism in historical context to explore contemporary thinking about these issues, but also about broader cultural concerns and shifts in attitudes. It questions both modern feminist and psychoanalytical interpretations of pornography, arguing that these approaches are neither appropriate nor helpful to an understanding of seventeenth-century material. Through discussions of sex and reproduction, homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, and humour, the book explores the nature of early modern sexual desire and arousal and explores their relationship to contemporary understandings about how the body worked. Imagining Sex presents a radically new interpretation of pornography in this period, arguing that concerns about fertility were at the heart of representations of bodies and sex, so that images of pleasure were entwined with ideas about conception and reproduction. It also shows that these texts legitimized the (sexual) pleasure of the reader by highlighting the pleasure of looking and the incitement to sexual action that it provided.
