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When flesh becomes word : an anthology of early eighteenth-century libertine literature /
When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these--The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)--are famous "whore dialogues," dramatic conv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these--The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)--are famous "whore dialogues," dramatic conversations between an older, experienced woman and a younger, inexperienced maid. Previously unavailable in an affordable edition, these dialogues combine sex; education, medical folklore, and erotic literature in a decidedly proto-pornographic form. This edition presents other important examples of libertine literature, including bawdy poetry, a salacious medical treatise, an irreverent travelogue, and a criminal biography. The combination of The combination of both popular and influential texts; presented in this edition provides an accessible introduction to the variety of material available to eighteenth-century readers before the publication of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure in 1749 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxxiii, 332 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198036616 0198036612 1602567743 9781602567740 9780195161878 0195161874 1280532769 9781280532764 9780195161885 0195161882 0195185773 9780195185775 9786610532766 6610532761 1433700956 9781433700958 |