Imagining sex : pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England /

Toulalan, Sarah.

Imagining sex : pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England / Sarah Toulalan. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations -

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The circulation of texts: publishers and readers -- 'What a fountain of joys': reproduction and sexual pleasure -- 'New from battersy': fantasies of sexual flagellation -- 'An extraordinary satisfaction': imagining homosexuality -- 'Erotopolis': voyeurism and the illusion of privacy -- 'Unexpected bed fellows': the comic and the erotic -- 'The naked truth': images of bodies and sex.

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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.


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Pornography--History--England--17th century.
Erotic literature, English--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Human body in literature.
Pornographie--Histoire--Angleterre--17e siècle.
Littérature érotique anglaise--Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
PSYCHOLOGY--Human Sexuality.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SELF-HELP--Sexual Instruction.
English literature--Early modern.
Erotic literature, English.
Human body in literature.
Pornography.


England.


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