Imagining sex : pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England
Imagining Sex examines a variety of material from seventeenth-century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. Analysing representations of sex and eroticism in historical context, the book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns. - ;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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations
9781435613904, 9780191526152, 9781281160652, 1435613902, 0191526150, 1281160652
607758250
The circulation of texts: publishers and readers
'What a fountain of joys': reproduction and sexual pleasure
'New from battersy': fantasies of sexual flagellation
'An extraordinary satisfaction': imagining homosexuality
'Erotopolis': voyeurism and the illusion of privacy
'Unexpected bed fellows': the comic and the erotic
'The naked truth': images of bodies and sex
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010