CiNii Books - Prostitution and eighteenth-century culture : sex, commerce and morality

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- Lewis, Ann
- Ellis, Markman

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Prostitution and eighteenth-century culture : sex, commerce and morality

edited by Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis

（The body, gender and culture, no. 7）

Routledge, 2016

: pbk

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Gifu University Library

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-239) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The eighteenth century saw profound changes in the way prostitution was represented in literary and visual culture. This collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was represented in popular culture of the time, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Venal Bodies - Prostitutes and Eighteenth-Century Culture, Markman Ellis, Ann Lewis
Chapter 1 Classifying the Prostitute in Eighteenth-Century France, Ann Lewis
Chapter 2 In Her Own Words: an Eighteenth-Century Madam Tells Her Story, Kathryn Norberg
Chapter 3 'All the World Knows Her Storie': Aphra Behn and the Duchess of Mazarin, Claudine van Hensbergen
Chapter 4 Marie Petit's Persian Adventure (1705-8): the Eastward Travels of a French 'Concubine', Katherine MacDonald
Chapter 5 'A First-rate Whore': Prostitution and Empowerment in the Early Eighteenth Century, Lena Olsson
Chapter 6 Prostitutes and Erotic Performances in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Thomas Wynn
Chapter 7 Visible Prostitutes: Mandeville, Hogarth and 'A Harlot's Progress', Charlotte Grant
Chapter 8 The Narrative Sources of Candide's Paquette, Edward Langille
Chapter 9 The Prostitute as Neo-Manager: Sade's Juliette and the New Spirit of Capitalism, Olivier Delers
Chapter 10 Figuring the London Magdalen House: Mercantilist Hospital, Sentimental Asylum or Proto-Evangelical Penitentiary?, Mary Peace
Chapter 11 Mothers and Others: Sexuality and Maternity in the Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-House (1760), Jennie Batchelor
Chapter 12 Making a Living by 'Indecency': Life Stories of Prostitutes in Christiania, Norway, Johanne Bergkvist
Chapter 13 Male Prostitution and the Emergence of the Modern Sexual System: Eighteenth-Century London, Randolph Trumbach

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