Whore''s Story - Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830

Zusatztext Bradford K Mudge's The Whore's Story is an important contribution to this project...a welcome addition to the literature on gender and sexuality in the period...with its thorough discussion of both familiar and obscure primary texts and its engaging readable style... Informationen zum Autor Bradford K. Mudge is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado. His Sara Coleridge: A Victoria Daughter won the 1990 Choice Outstanding Book Award. Klappentext This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade! that over the novel! and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of crucial importance to the emergence of a new! middle-class state. Looking closely at sermons! medical manuals! periodical essays! and political tracts as well as poetry! novels! and literary criticism! The Whore's Story tracks the shifting politics of pleasure in eighteenth-century Britain and charts the rise of modern! pornographic sensibilities. Zusammenfassung Examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Through various sources, this work tracks the shifting politics of pleasure in 18th-century Britain, charting the rise of modern, pornographic sensibilities.

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• Authors: Bradford K. Mudge, Bradford K. (Associate Professor of English Mudge, Bradford Keyes Mudge
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2000
• EAN: 9780195135053
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513505-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Ideologies of Desire; Ideologies of Desire
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Erotica / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, erotic fiction, Literary studies: general, Gender studies: women, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Gender studies: women and girls, Ethical issues and debates, Ethical Issues: Pornography & Obscenity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Erotic fiction / Erotica