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Title When flesh becomes word : an anthology of early eighteenth-century libertine literature / edited by Bradford K. Mudge
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiii, 332 pages) : illustrations
Contents British libertine literature before Fanny Hill (1749) -- 1: The school of Venus (1680) -- 2: The pleasure of a single life (1701), The fifteen comforts of Cuckoldom (1706), and the fifteen plagues of a maiden-head (1707) -- 3: Gonosologium Novum (1709) -- 4: Venus in the cloister (1725) -- 5: A dialogue between a married lady and a maid (1740) -- 6: A new description of merryland (1741) -- 7: The female husband (1746)
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-325) and index
Notes English
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Subject Erotic literature, English.
English literature -- 18th century.
Libertinism -- Literary collections
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Erotic literature, English
Libertinism
Genre/Form Literary collections
Form Electronic book
Author Mudge, Bradford Keyes
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