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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... libertine philosophy might receive particular attention from regulating authorities . A number of scholars have concentrated on looking at pornography in its role as political satire : for example , Ian McCalman in Radical Underworld ...
... libertine philosophy might receive particular attention from regulating authorities . A number of scholars have concentrated on looking at pornography in its role as political satire : for example , Ian McCalman in Radical Underworld ...
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... Libertines and Radicals , 6 . 83 Foxon , Libertine Literature ; P. J. , Kearney , The Private Case : An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British ( Museum ) Library ( London , 1981 ) ; Kearney , A ...
... Libertines and Radicals , 6 . 83 Foxon , Libertine Literature ; P. J. , Kearney , The Private Case : An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British ( Museum ) Library ( London , 1981 ) ; Kearney , A ...
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... libertine sexual appetite , which includes description of a wide variety of different sexual activities for the pleasure of the reader , and which caters to all tastes . Rather , these representations conform to a very culturally ...
... libertine sexual appetite , which includes description of a wide variety of different sexual activities for the pleasure of the reader , and which caters to all tastes . Rather , these representations conform to a very culturally ...
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Publishers and Readers | 37 |
Reproduction and Sexual Pleasure | 62 |
Fantasies of Sexual Flagellation | 92 |
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