Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 1

Chris Mounsey, Rictor Norton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040232637
• 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
• Contents of the Edition
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• General Introduction
• Introduction
• The Pleasures of a Single Life, or, The Miseries of Matrimony (1701) and The Choice, or, The Pleasures of a Country-Life (1700)
• An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, The Comforts of Marriage Confirm'd and Vindicated (1701)
• The Ladies Choice (1702)
• The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: or, Looking-Glass for All Those Who Have Enter'd in That Holy and Comfortable State (1706)
• The Batchelors and Maids Answer to The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony (1706?)
• The Fifteen Comforts of Whoring, or, The Pleasures of a Town-Life (1706)
• The Whores and Bawd's Answer to the Fifteen Comforts of Whoring (1706)
• The Fifteen Comforts of Cuckoldom (1706)
• The Fifteen Comforts of a Wanton Wife (1707)
• The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head (1707)
• The Maids Vindication: or, The Fifteen Comforts of Living a Single Life (1707)
• The Fifteen Pleasures of a Virgin (1709)
• The Insinuating Bawd and the Repenting Harlot (1700?)
• The Constables Hue and Cry After Whores and Bawds (1700?)
• The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life (1699/1700?)
• A Full and True Account of a Dreadful Fire that Lately Broke Out in the Pope's Breeches (1713)
• Notes to the Texts