- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen's homosocial societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating between mainstream and covert activities of the 18th century. Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates and examines how Georgian sexual activity was integrated from low life and high places, from brothels to palaces. Aimed at anyone interested in gender, history of sexuality, sex, literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable collection of the work of a key scholar in the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- PART ONE Norms and Anomalies
- 1 Continuities and Change in Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes from the Eighteenth Century
- 2 āPerversion of the Course of Natureā: Sexual Variations in the Eighteenth Century
- 3 Blaming and Shaming in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-century Print Culture
- PART TWO Erotic Women: Fact and Fiction
- 4 Whore Biographies in the Eighteenth Century
- 5 Memoirs of Women of Pleasure: Autobiographies
- 6 Initiation, Defloration and Flagellation: Sexual Propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- 7 āThe Best Freind in the Worldā: The Relationship Between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples
- PART THREE Exploring Bodies
- 8 Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature
- 9 Medicine, the Body and the Botanical Sexual Metaphor in Erotica
- 10 The Eighteenth-century Erotic Garden
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright