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Author Rosario, Vernon A.

Title The erotic imagination : French histories of perversity / Vernon A. Rosario.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ463 .R545 1997    Available  ---
Description x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Ideologies of desire
Ideologies of desire.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.
Contents Introduction : in quest of eroticism -- Onanists : the public threat of phantastical pollutions -- Erotomaniacs : self-representation in courts and asylums -- Inverts : pointy penises, hysterical mollies, and literary homosexuals -- Fetishists : cults, consumption, and erotic dramas -- Conclusion : from talking sex to sex talk -- Psychoanalytic supplement : from French auto-erotography to Freudian auto-ergography.
Subject Erotica -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Erotica.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Erotic literature, French.
Erotic literature, French.
Sex customs -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Sex customs.
Sexual health -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Sexual health.
Érotisme -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Littérature érotique française.
Vie sexuelle -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Hygiène sexuelle -- France -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Erotica.
Sexual practices.
Sexual health.
ISBN 0195104838 cloth alkaline paper