LEADER 03759nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910783440903321 005 20230617035127.0 010 $a0-19-772680-1 010 $a1-4337-0095-6 010 $a9786610532766 010 $a1-280-53276-9 010 $a0-19-803661-2 010 $a1-60256-774-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000238528 035 $a(EBL)3052000 035 $a(OCoLC)922952525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270971 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11208432 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270971 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10280435 035 $a(PQKB)10532097 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3052000 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10103590 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL53276 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL279828 035 $a(OCoLC)57137237 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3052000 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000238528 100 $a20030414d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWhen flesh becomes word$b[electronic resource] $ean anthology of early eighteenth-century libertine literature /$fedited by Bradford K. Mudge 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (367 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-516187-4 311 $a0-19-516188-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-325) and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""INDEX""""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W"" 330 $aWhen 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. 606 $aErotic literature, English 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century 606 $aLibertinism$vLiterary collections 615 0$aErotic literature, English. 615 0$aEnglish literature 615 0$aLibertinism 676 $a820.8/03538/09033 701 $aMudge$b Bradford Keyes$01507561 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783440903321 996 $aWhen flesh becomes word$93738424 997 $aUNINA