The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830Oxford University Press, 08.06.2000 - 304 Seiten 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. |
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... woman's sen- suality , so different from man's and for which man's language was inadequate . The language of sex had yet to be invented . The language of the senses was yet to be explored . —Anais Nin I have become a lot more interested ...
... woman's sen- suality , so different from man's and for which man's language was inadequate . The language of sex had yet to be invented . The language of the senses was yet to be explored . —Anais Nin I have become a lot more interested ...
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... before Anais Nin were not afraid to open Pandora's box . As I shall argue , the " mysteries of woman's sensuality , so 5 different from man's and for which man's language was WOMEN , PORNOGRAPHY , AND LITERARY HISTORY 5.
... before Anais Nin were not afraid to open Pandora's box . As I shall argue , the " mysteries of woman's sensuality , so 5 different from man's and for which man's language was WOMEN , PORNOGRAPHY , AND LITERARY HISTORY 5.
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... woman to her trial for writing a few amorous trifles purely for her own amusement , or that our laws were defective , as most persons conceived , because she had served her- self with romantic names and feigned scenes of action , but ...
... woman to her trial for writing a few amorous trifles purely for her own amusement , or that our laws were defective , as most persons conceived , because she had served her- self with romantic names and feigned scenes of action , but ...
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... woman out of control — than it does a calculated effort on Manley's part to push the acceptable limits of passion into the borderlands of the unacceptable . In the same way that she experimented with the " language of sex " in The New ...
... woman out of control — than it does a calculated effort on Manley's part to push the acceptable limits of passion into the borderlands of the unacceptable . In the same way that she experimented with the " language of sex " in The New ...
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... to " release the erotica for publication because it shows the beginning efforts of a woman in a world that had been the domain of men " ( p . xvii ) . That world is the world of mainstream , masculinist pornography , and it ΙΟ INTRODUCTION.
... to " release the erotica for publication because it shows the beginning efforts of a woman in a world that had been the domain of men " ( p . xvii ) . That world is the world of mainstream , masculinist pornography , and it ΙΟ INTRODUCTION.
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The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830 Bradford Keyes Mudge Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2000 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Addison Annie Sprinkle Aphra Behn appeared argue Atalantis bawdy beauty become Behn's Bishop Bishop Gibson body British century character Charlot chastity Cleland's Cloister Coleridge Coleridge's critics crucial Crusoe dangerous deception Defoe Defoe's Delarivier Manley depravity desire Duke early eighteenth-century Edmund Curll eighteenth Eliza Haywood entertainment erotic evil example Fanny Hill Fanny's fantasy fear female sexuality femininity feminism feminists Gothic novels Haywood Hogarth human imagination innocent Jewkes kind Lady letter literary history literary marketplace literature London Love in Excess Lydia Lunch male Manley's marriage masquerade Millenium Hall mind modern Moll Flanders moral narrative nature novelists obscene once Pamela passion poet political Pope popular culture popular fiction pornography prostitution reader reality reform Review Richardson romance Rowlandson Roxana Samuel Richardson satire scene seduction sexual pleasure Shamela Silvia Spectator taste tion truth virtue whore woman women writers words Wordsworth writing young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 113 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die,) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield...
Seite 96 - During the first year that Mr. Wordsworth and I were neighbours, our conversations turned frequently on the two cardinal points of poetry, the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by a faithful adherence to the truth of nature, and the power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of imagination.
Seite 102 - For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Seite 96 - Lyrical Ballads ;" in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least romantic ; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Seite 103 - To these qualities he has added a disposition to be affected more than other men by absent things as if they were present; an ability of conjuring up in himself passions, which are indeed far from being the same as those produced by real events...
Seite 124 - The Novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the times in which it is written. The Romance in lofty and elevated language, describes what never happened nor is likely to happen.
Seite 114 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Seite 159 - Curll for wrongfully ascribing to him the aforesaid poems : he excused himself by declaring, that one of his authors (Mr. Oldmixon by name) gave the copies to the press, and wrote the preface. Upon this Mr. Pope, being to all appearance reconciled, very civilly drank a glass of sack to Mr. Curll, which he as civilly pledged...
Seite 102 - Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.
Seite 66 - A Dictionary for the explanation of hard words, Sherlock upon Death. The fifteen Comforts of Matrimony.
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