Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century EnglandOUP Oxford, 2007/09/06 - 323 ページ Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books, and pamphlets) as well as poetry, drama andmore specialised medical books. The book analyses representations of sex, sexuality and eroticism in historical context to explore contemporary thinking about these issues, but also about broader cultural concerns and shifts in attitudes. It questions both modern feminist and psychoanalytical interpretations ofpornography, arguing that these approaches are neither appropriate nor helpful to an understanding of seventeenth-century material.Through discussions of sex and reproduction, homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, and humour, the book explores the nature of early modern sexual desire and arousal and explores their relationship to contemporary understandings about how the body worked. Imagining Sex presents a radically new interpretation of pornography in this period, arguing that concerns about fertility were at the heart of representations of bodies and sex, so that images of pleasure were entwined with ideasabout conception and reproduction. It also shows that these texts legitimized the (sexual) pleasure of the reader by highlighting the pleasure of looking and the incitement to sexual action that it provided. |
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... erotic and humorous parts without grasping all the references . Philip Stewart , in Engraven Desire , makes the same point with respect to eighteenth - century erotic engravings . An erotic engraving is an expensive item , produced for ...
... erotic and humorous parts without grasping all the references . Philip Stewart , in Engraven Desire , makes the same point with respect to eighteenth - century erotic engravings . An erotic engraving is an expensive item , produced for ...
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... erotic engravings . He defines the difference between ' decent ' and ' indecent ' images that deal with erotic encounters as residing in whether the picture actually depicts sexual activity , or suggests that it has either just taken ...
... erotic engravings . He defines the difference between ' decent ' and ' indecent ' images that deal with erotic encounters as residing in whether the picture actually depicts sexual activity , or suggests that it has either just taken ...
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... erotic resonance in itself : ' cabinet ' becomes a metaphor for the female sexual parts , as most obviously presented in the subtitle to Rare Verities - The Cabinet of Venus Unlocked , and her Secrets Laid Open ; while ' curious ' is ...
... erotic resonance in itself : ' cabinet ' becomes a metaphor for the female sexual parts , as most obviously presented in the subtitle to Rare Verities - The Cabinet of Venus Unlocked , and her Secrets Laid Open ; while ' curious ' is ...
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Publishers and Readers | 37 |
Reproduction and Sexual Pleasure | 62 |
Fantasies of Sexual Flagellation | 92 |
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