Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment

Author(s)

• Rousseau, G. S. (George Sebastian)
• Porter, Roy

Bibliographic Information

Sexual underworlds of the Enlightenment

edited by G.S. Rousseau and Roy Porter

University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Contents of Works

• From lascivious erudition to the history of mentalities / Théodore Tarczylo
• The discourse on sex, or sex as discourse / Peter Wagner
• Modern prostitution and gender in Fanny Hill / Randolph Trumbach
• Imagination, pregnant women, and monsters in eighteenth-century England and France / Paul-Gabriel Boucé
• The sorrows of Priapus / G.S. Rousseau
• The culture of travesty / Terry Castle
• Vulnerability and the age of female consent / Antony E. Simpson
• A touch of danger / Roy Porter
• Passing women / Lynne Friedli
• Sex and shamanism in the eighteenth century / Gloria Flaherty

Details

• NCID: BA07460421
• ISBN:
  • 0807817821
• LCCN: 87027893
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Chapel Hill
• Pages/Volumes: x, 280 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ18.G7
  • DC19 : 306.7/094
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Prostitution -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Pornography -- Europe -- History -- 18th century