A Study of Erotic Literature in England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Study of Erotic Literature in England write by W. v. Murat. This book was released on 2019-09-24. A Study of Erotic Literature in England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present work fills a gap as it attempts to offer a history of erotic literature published in the United Kingdom. The word Study in the title is perhaps a bit exaggerated as the material is largely taken from the now well known bibliographies by Pisanus Fraxi (Henry Spencer Ashbee) and quotations from the books themselves. The time line is WW II. Who was the author? He may have been Charles Reginald Dawes (1879-1964) who is supposed to have written (but not published) a text of this or a similar title. His profession or his activities are not known - he once called himself a writer but library catalogues credit him only with two publications: The Marquis de Sade (Paris 1927) and Retif de la Bretonne (London 1946, privately printed). He may have been a popular writer under pseudonyms, though. Dawes owned a good erotica collection which he willed to the British Museum Library; that would explain why the author of this Study - if he was Dawes - could quote freely from erotic texts which only few of his contemporaries would have had available. The main merits of this book are that the author was thoroughly familiar with English (and French) erotic literature and that he put his material in chronological order and in context. The editor added a number of references, illustrations and indices of personal names and titles to facilitate navigation.
The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature write by Bradford K. Mudge. This book was released on 2017-09-07. The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Companion offers an introduction to key topics in the study of erotic literature from antiquity to the present.
Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930
Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930 write by Peter Mendes. This book was released on 1993. Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English, 1800-1930 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').
Before Pornography
Before Pornography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Before Pornography write by Ian Frederick Moulton. This book was released on 2000. Before Pornography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Before Pornography explores the relationship between erotic writing, masculinity, and national identity in Renaissance England. Drawing on both manuscripts and printed texts, and incorporating insights from modern feminist theory and queer studies, the book argues that pornography is a historical phenomenon: while the representation of sexual activity exists in nearly all cultures, pornography does not. The book includes analyses of the social significance of eroticism in such canonical texts as Sidney's Defense of Poesy and Spenser's Faerie Queene.
Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation
Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation write by Johannes D Kaminski. This book was released on 2020-09-28. Erotic Literature in Adaptation and Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transgressive by nature, erotic literature engages the reader in a dialogue informed by the social and aesthetic conventions that it playfully disregards or happily reproduces. But once this intimate, arousing and, often, disturbing dialogue transitions into another language, culture or medium, it must reposition itself within new conventions. How does this happen in practice? Examining erotic literature from multiple angles, this volume starts off with an ethical evaluation of the most recent rendering of Marquis de Sade into English. Other inquiries into European letters include the works of Goethe, Georges Bataille, Pierre Guyotat and E. L. James, and the films of Michael Haneke and Patrice Chéreau. Studies of Chinese and Japanese erotic traditions complement the picture by addressing the different functions of the erotic in discrete cultural settings. Johannes D. Kaminski is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at University of Vienna.
