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Author Toulalan, Sarah.

Title Imagining sex : pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England / Sarah Toulalan.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Summary 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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Subject Erotic literature, English -- History and criticism.
Erotic literature, English.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Toulalan, Sarah. Imagining sex. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2007300232 (OCoLC)154707943
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