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'Tis Nature's Fault Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Social Science)
  • ISBN-10:  0521347688
  • ISBN-10:  0521347688
  • ISBN-13:  9780521347686
  • ISBN-13:  9780521347686
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher:  Cambridge University Press
  • Pages:  270
  • Pages:  270
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-1988
  • Pub Date:  01-May-1988
  • SKU:  0521347688-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0521347688-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101377630
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This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability.A consideration of unsanctified sexual phenomena in eighteenth century Europe includes essays on masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality and erotic literature.A consideration of unsanctified sexual phenomena in eighteenth century Europe includes essays on masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality and erotic literature.The essays in this volume address sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were for one reason or another outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability: most notably, unwed heterosexual domesticity, masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality, and erotic literature. The contributors' essays make an important first step toward integrating sexuality into our general understanding of eighteenth century culture. Contributors: Roy Porter; Jean-Marie Goulemot with Odile Wagner and Arthur Greenspan, translators; John R. Gillis; Theodore Tarczylo with James Coke and Michael Murray, translators; Vern L. Bullough; James G. Turner; Jean-Pierre Guicciardi with Michael Murray, translator; David Coward; Randolph Trumbach; Michel Delon, with Nelly Stephane, translator; G. S. Rousseau; Arend H. Huussen, Jr.; Michael Rey with Robert A. Day and Robert Welch, translators; Peter Sabor; Paul-Gabriel Bouce Robert J. Ellrich; Robert L. Dawson; Armando Marchi with James Cook and David Marsh, translators.1. Introduction Robert P. Maccubbin; 2. 'The secrets of generation display'd': Aristotle's masterpiece in eighteenth-century England Roy Porter; 3. Sexual imagination as revealed in the Trait? des superstitions of Abb? Jean-Baptiste Theirs Jean Marie Goulemot, translated by Odile Wagner and Arthur Greenspan; 4. Married but not churched: plebeian sexual relations and marital nonconformity in eighteenth-century Britain John R. Gillis; 5. Moral values in 'la suite de l'l-
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