Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 3

Patrick Spedding

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040246290
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This set reprints many of the 18th century's most notorious works, including eight from "The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head" (1707), that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some cases helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The Ladies Delight (1732)
• The Natural History of the Frutex Vulvaria, or Flowering Shrub (1732)
• Wisdom Revealed; or, The Tree of Life Discover’d and Describ’d (1732)
• Little Merlin’s Cave (1737)
• A New Description of Merryland (1741, for 1740)
• A Short Description of the Roads Which Lead to That Delightful Country Called Merryland (1743, for 1742)
• The Potent Ally: or, Succours from Merryland (1741)
• The Machine: or Love’s Preservative (1744?)
• Teague-Root Display’d: Being Some Useful and Important Discoveries Tending to Illustrate the Doctrine of Electricity (1746)
• Notes to the Texts