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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover page; Halftitle page; Series page; title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE Norms and Anomalies; CHAPTER ONE Continuities and Change in Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes from the Eighteenth Century; Sex and marriage in Europe; Sexual relations in European colonies and empires; Sex and marriage in East Asia; Prostitution; Homosexuality; CHAPTER TWO 'Perversion of the Course of Nature': Sexual Variations in the Eighteenth Century; Sodomy as perversion 'against nature'; Topsy-turvy world of dress; Pornography as perversion?
- Rape and necrophiliaCreation of the perverse 'other'; CHAPTER THREE Blaming and Shaming in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Print Culture; PART TWO Erotic Women: Fact and Fiction; CHAPTER FOUR Whore Biographies in the Eighteenth Century; Contemporary commentaries; CHAPTER FIVE Memoirs of Women of Pleasure: Autobiographies; The Wronged Daughter: parental blame; The Educated Hostess: 'the art of pleasing'; The Fallen Woman: her fi rst lover; The Chaste Ideal: sexual etiquette; The Coquette: the deceitful heart; The Spit-Fire: 'wild' passions; The Temptress: jealous lovers.
- The Vengeful WhoreCHAPTER SIX Initiation, Defloration and Flagellation: Sexual Propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Sexual initiation of women by women; Sexual initiation of women by men; Flagellation; CHAPTER SEVEN 'The Best Freind in the World': The Relationship Between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples1; PART THREE Exploring Bodies; CHAPTER EIGHT Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature; The humoral system; Concerns about blood in medical texts and pornography; Concerns about sexual fluids: the physicians' debate.
- Concerns about sexual secretions in eroticaCHAPTER NINE Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Sexual Metaphor in Erotica; Historical context; Scientific developments; Natural history of the Frutex Vulvaria; CHAPTER TEN The Eighteenth-century Erotic Garden; The making of the gentleman's erotic garden; Sir Francis Dashwood's estate; The garden in erotic literature; NOTES; INDEX.