Amatory pleasures : explorations in eighteenth-century sexual culture / Julie Peakman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peakman, Julie, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--History--18th century.

Sex.

Sex customs--History--18th century.

Sex customs.

Sex in literature--History--18th century.

Sex in literature.

Sexual Behavior--history.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Sexual Behavior--history.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Summary:

"Encompassing the long 18th century, this reader examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, erotic gardens, gentlemen's secret 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. Including material previously available only in academic journals, revising these for a new readership and including two completely new chapters, Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates. Her introduction examines how the covert life of Georgian sex was integrated from low life and high places, in brothels and palaces. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of gender, history of sexuality, sex literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable reader of the work of a key scholar in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

"Encompassing the long 18th century, this reader examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, erotic gardens, gentlemen's secret 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Continuities and change in sexual behvaior and attitudes from the eighteen century

'Perversion of the course of nature': sexual variations in the eighteenth century

Blaming and shaming in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century print culture

Whore biographies in the eighteenth century

Memoirs of women of pleasure: autobiographies

Initiation, defloration and flagellation: sexual propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

'The best freind in the world' : the relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples

Bodily anxieties in Enlightenment sex literature

Medicine, the body and the botanical sexual metaphor in erotica

The eigtheenth- century erotic garden.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Peakman, Julie, 1957- author. Amatory pleasures.

ISBN:

9781474226431

1474226434

9781474226448

1474226442

OCLC:

936205185