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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450872003321

Autore

Toulalan Sarah

Titolo

Imagining sex [[electronic resource] ] : pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England / / Sarah Toulalan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16065-2

9786611160654

0-19-152615-0

1-4356-1390-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Disciplina

306.77

Soggetti

Pornography - England - History - 17th century

Erotic literature, English - History and criticism

English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism

Human body in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. The Circulation of Texts: Publishers and Readers; 2. 'What a Fountain of Joys': Reproduction and Sexual Pleasure; 3. 'New from Battersy': Fantasies of Sexual Flagellation; 4. 'An Extraordinary Satisfaction': Imagining Homosexuality; 5. 'Erotopolis': Voyeurism and the Illusion of Privacy; 6. 'Unexpected Bed Fellows': The Comic and the Erotic; 7. 'The Naked Truth': Images of Bodies and Sex; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Imagining Sex examines a variety of material from seventeenth-century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. Analysing representations of sex and eroticism in historical context, the book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns. - ;Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at