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 2016-12-05. 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').
A Study of Erotic Literature in England
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.
Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality
Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality - 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 Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality write by Anna Clark. This book was released on 2024-09-12. Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and shows how historians have responded to these methodological challenges with ingenuity and creativity. The volume acknowledges that the history of sexuality poses particularly interesting challenges in relation to sources due the peculiar nature of sexuality. On one hand, sexuality is frequently hidden and private, its practices often unknown, denied, and evaded, its desires fleeting or obsessive, its reality confused or illuminated by fantasy; yet on the other, sexuality consistently breaks into the public sphere through moral panics, waves of persecution, taxonomizing projects, and medical/juridical interventions. With vivid case studies from renowned contributors, the chapters provide different theoretical approaches along with more practical examples of how to study the history of sexuality. The volume has a broad chronology from the ancient world to the present, an extensive geography covering not only Europe and the Americas but also Latin America and Africa, and also includes a variety of gender and sexual expressions. The book also privileges texts that offer an intersectional approach, asking how sex and sexualities were constructed alongside/against other categories of difference. With accessible writing, this volume encourages the reader to think creatively about how to find evidence of sex/sexuality in the past and will be of value to students as well as scholars interested in the history of sexuality.
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.
The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley
The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley - 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 Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley write by C. Colligan. This book was released on 2006-08-22. The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.
