03759nam 2200673 a 450 991080741260332120230617035127.00-19-772680-11-4337-0095-697866105327661-280-53276-90-19-803661-21-60256-774-3(CKB)1000000000238528(EBL)3052000(OCoLC)922952525(SSID)ssj0000270971(PQKBManifestationID)11208432(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270971(PQKBWorkID)10280435(PQKB)10532097(Au-PeEL)EBL3052000(CaPaEBR)ebr10103590(CaONFJC)MIL53276(Au-PeEL)EBL279828(OCoLC)57137237(MiAaPQ)EBC3052000(EXLCZ)99100000000023852820030414d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhen flesh becomes word[electronic resource] an anthology of early eighteenth-century libertine literature /edited by Bradford K. MudgeNew York Oxford University Press20041 online resource (367 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-516187-4 0-19-516188-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-325) and index.""CONTENTS""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS""; ""A NOTE ON THE TEXTS""; ""INTRODUCTION: British Libertine Literature before Fanny Hill (1749)""; ""CHAPTER 1 The School of Venus (1680)""; ""CHAPTER 2 The Pleasures of a Single Life (1701), The Fifteen Comforts of Cuckoldom (1706), and The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head (1707)""; ""CHAPTER 3 Gonosologium Novum (1709)""; ""CHAPTER 4 Venus in the Cloister (1725)""; ""CHAPTER 5 A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)""; ""CHAPTER 6 A New Description of Merryland (1741)""; ""CHAPTER 7 The Female Husband (1746)""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""""INDEX""""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""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 sexeducation,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 textspresented 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.Erotic literature, EnglishEnglish literature18th centuryLibertinismLiterary collectionsErotic literature, English.English literatureLibertinism820.8/03538/09033Mudge Bradford Keyes1605741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807412603321When flesh becomes word3931157UNINA