Schooling sex : libertine literature and erotic education in Italy, France, and England, 1534-1685 / James Grantham Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, James, 1947-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic literature, French--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, French.

Erotic literature, English--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, English.

Erotic literature, Italian--History and criticism.

Erotic literature, Italian.

European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.

European literature.

European literature--17th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Schooling Sex is the first full history of early modern libertine literature and its reception, from Aretino and Tullia d'Aragona in 16th-century Italy to Pepys, Rochester, and Behn in late 17th-century England. James Turner explores the idea of sexual education, from the simple instructional dialogue to the advanced experiments of the philosophical libertine, analyzing the hard-core curriculum that defined sexuality centuries before the Marquis de Sade.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0199254265

OCLC:

50866955