When Flesh Becomes Word by Bradford K Mudge
When Flesh Becomes Word collects nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750. Three of these--The School of Venus (1680), Venus in the Cloister (1725), and A Dialogue Between a Married Lady and a Maid (1740)--are famous "whore dialogues," dramatic conversations between an older,experienced woman and a younger, inexperienced maid. Previously unavailable in an affordable edition these dialogues combine sex education, medical folklore, and erotic literature in a decidedly proto-pornographic form. This edition presents other important examples of libertine literature, including bawdy poetry, a salacious medical treatise, an irreverent travelogue, and a criminal biography. The combination of both popular and influential texts presented in this edition provides an accessible introduction to the variety of material available to eighteenth-century readers before the publication of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure in 1749.
A fascinating collection of materialThese texts of sexual experience are potent means both of subverting and bolstering social and literay norms * TLS *
Bradford K. Mudge is Professor of English at the University of Colorado and the author of The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195161885 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195161882 |
| Title | When Flesh Becomes Word |
| Author | Bradford K Mudge |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2004-04-22 |
| Number of pages | 366 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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