Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century by R Porter

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century by R Porter

What were the sources of pleasure during the eighteenth century? The range of pleasurable activities from the bawdy and perverse to the refined are brought together in this collection of essays, which is the first to look at both the philosophy and practice of the pleasure-seeking Georgians. Experts on the arts of pleasure will luxuriate over Italian opera, gastronomic delights, the pleasures of Gothic terror, seduction, and the revellers of the bizarre London clubs.

'..well-conceived and interesting ...a major advance in the subject.' - Jeremy Black, The Economic History Review

Marie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, UK. She is the author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal (MUP, 2016), winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize. She has authored, edited and co-edited over 30 books. This will be her third edited book on Angela Carter. Recently she made a film on Carter’s The Bloody Chamber for Massolit, for use in schools (33,000 downloads). She was the co-curator of the Strange Worlds exhibition on Angela Carter at the Royal West Academy of Art in Bristol 2017 and co-edited the catalogue. She is the co-founder of Women’s Writing, for which she serves as Editor and runs two Carter websites with Charlotte Crofts.

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ISBN 13	9780333629772
ISBN 10	0333629779
Title	Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century
Author	R Porter
Series	Themes In Focus
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	1996-10-02
Number of pages	296
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