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Author : John Cleland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tobias Smollett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1716126584
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (161 download)
Download or read book The Adventures of Roderick Random (Esprios Classics) written by Tobias Smollett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1812 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340147600
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Fanny Hill written by In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Samuel S. Coleman
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A KWIC Concordance to John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure written by Samuel S. Coleman and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hal Gladfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421404907
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Fanny Hill in Bombay written by Hal Gladfelder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England. Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast. As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland’s writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.
Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759049
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Italy’s Eighteenth Century written by Paula Findlen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which castrati were "rock stars," men served women as cicisbei, and dandified Englishmen became macaroni, Italy was perceived to be a place where men became women. The great publicity surrounding female poets, journalists, artists, anatomists, and scientists, and the visible roles for such women in salons, academies, and universities in many Italian cities also made visitors wonder whether women had become men. Such images, of course, were stereotypes, but they were nonetheless grounded in a reality that was unique to the Italian peninsula. This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.
Author : Paul J. Korshin
Publisher : Menston : Scolar Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Studies in Change and Revolution: Aspects of English Intellectual History, 1640-1800 written by Paul J. Korshin and published by Menston : Scolar Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nannie T. Alderson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149623538X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book A Bride Goes West written by Nannie T. Alderson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-06-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108602363
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland written by John Cleland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence, this volume provides a rare insight into a significant literary life and into jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. All known letters by and to Cleland are included entire, alongside letter excerpts, diary entries and documents in which he is discussed by friends, enemies, family members and distant acquaintances. The volume also includes Cleland's christening record, a manuscript essay composed by Cleland in French on 'Litterateurs', and the will of Cleland's mother Lucy, whose many codicils reveal her determination to prevent her profligate son from squandering her fortune. Interspersed throughout are telling remarks about Cleland from figures such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Foote, Claude-Pierre Patu, and, most revealing and intriguing of all, vignettes by the great biographer James Boswell. The volume makes several new attributions and demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment.
Author : Thomas Cannon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781985755482
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (554 download)
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd written by Thomas Cannon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Cannon of Gray's Inn was an English author of the 18th century. He wrote what may be the earliest published defence of homosexuality in English, Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify'd (1749) and may also have collaborated with John Cleland, author of Fanny Hill. A son of Robert Cannon, Dean of Lincoln, Cannon had a serious falling out with Cleland which indirectly led to his prosecution. In 1748, Cleland was sent to prison for failing to pay debts to Cannon and another man. It was while in prison that Cleland published Fanny Hill. Just before the second volume appeared, Cannon lodged a legal complaint against Cleland, claiming that he was now sending anonymous letters containing abusive and slanderous accusations. Cleland accused Cannon of attempted murder, and of being homosexual. A few weeks after Cleland's accusations, Cannon arranged the printing of Ancient & Modern Pederasty. Despite its illegal subject matter, the pamphlet might never have come to the attention of the authorities had it not been for the embittered Cleland who, after being released from prison for debt, was re-arrested in 1749 for obscenity due to Fanny Hill. Cleland vindictively wrote to the Duke of Newcastle's law clerk drawing his attention to Cannon's pamphlet. This prompted a letter from Newcastle to the Attorney General, requesting the prosecution of Cannon. Cannon and his printer were arrested but released on bail of £400 each. Cannon fled abroad for three years. The printer was sent to trial, found guilty, and fined, imprisoned for a month, and also subjected to the public torture of the pillory.
Author : John Cleland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781448607273
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cleland is said to have "misapplied considerable talents" in writing his scandalous 1749 novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or; Fanny Hill. Nevertheless, the book has near-constantly remained in print, even where declared criminal, till finally being recognized as a classic of 18th century literature. It's known to have sold for as much as $40 for a new printing in 1863 -- several hundred dollars in today's money.Fanny Hill, age 15, is orphaned by a smallpox outbreak and forced to fend for herself. She narrowly escapes selling her virginity in a brothel after being tricked into taking a job there, and soon loses her beloved to the machinations of his wicked father. What, then, is left for Fanny to do?The text of this edition is copied from a famous French printing, and illustrated with several charming black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Erica Jong
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324358
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Fanny written by Erica Jong and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jong . . . filled a gap in the great tradition of the picaresque novel. . . . Linguistically, "Fanny" is a tower of strength. . . . Jong has gone farther than Joyce."--Anthony Burgess, "Saturday Review."
Author : Françoise de Graffigny
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191622613
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Peruvian Woman written by Françoise de Graffigny and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It has taken me a long time, my dearest Aza, to fathom the cause of that contempt in which women are held in this country ...' Zilia, an Inca Virgin of the Sun, is captured by the Spanish conquistadores and brutally separated from her lover, Aza. She is rescued and taken to France by Déterville, a nobleman, who is soon captivated by her. One of the most popular novels of the eighteenth century, the Letters of a Peruvian Woman recounts Zilia's feelings on her separation from both her lover and her culture, and her experience of a new and alien society. Françoise de Graffigny's bold and innovative novel clearly appealed to the contemporary taste for the exotic and the timeless appetite for love stories. But by fusing sentimental fiction and social commentary, she also created a new kind of heroine, defined by her intellect as much as her feelings. The novel's controversial ending calls into question traditional assumptions about the role of women both in fiction and society, and about what constitutes 'civilization'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770481842
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Coxcomb written by John Cleland and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1751, John Cleland’s second novel (after the notorious Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) is a witty and complex portrait of aristocratic British society in the mid-eighteenth century. Its young protagonist, Sir William Delamore, meets, falls in love with, and pursues the mysterious heiress Lydia. Rather than a conventional romance, however, the novel is an acerbic social satire, and Sir William an unreliable narrator and incomplete hero. In its experiments with narrative form and its sophisticated examination of masculine identity, Memoirs of a Coxcomb is an important marker in the development of the eighteenth-century novel. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that places Memoirs in the context of Cleland’s life and literary career. Also included is a broad selection of appendices, including Tobias Smollett’s review of the novel, selections from Cleland’s criticism, three texts by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and contemporary documents on masculinity (particularly the figures of the coxcomb and the fop) and prostitution.
Author : Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300128339
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Novel Beginnings written by Patricia Meyer Spacks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study intended for general readers, eminent critic Patricia Meyer Spacks provides a fresh, engaging account of the early history of the English novel. Novel Beginnings departs from the traditional, narrow focus on the development of the realistic novel to emphasize the many kinds of experimentation that marked the genre in the eighteenth century before its conventions were firmly established in the nineteenth. Treating well-known works like Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy in conjunction with less familiar texts such as Sarah Fielding’s The Cry (a kind of hybrid novel and play) and Jane Barker’s A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (a novel of adventure replete with sentimental verse and numerous subnarratives), the book evokes the excitement of a multifaceted and unpredictable process of growth and change. Investigating fiction throughout the 1700s, Spacks delineates the individuality of specific texts while suggesting connections among novels. She sketches a wide range of forms and themes, including Providential narratives, psychological thrillers, romans à clef, sentimental parables, political allegories, Gothic romances, and many others. These multiple narrative experiments show the impossibility of thinking of eighteenth-century fiction simply as a precursor to the nineteenth-century novel, Spacks shows. Instead, the vast variety of engagements with the problems of creating fiction demonstrates that literary history—by no means inexorable—might have taken quite a different course.
Author : F. Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180946127
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranked 2nd [after James Joyce's Ulysses] on the Modern Library's list of "The 100 Best Novels" Ranked 46th on the French Le Monde's list of "The 100 Best Novels in the World” The Great Gatsby is the anthem of the Jazz Age, the decadent twenties' seminal work, and the ultimate novel about the American Dream. It doesn't matter how many times it's adapted into film. Or theater. Or opera. It's through F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterful prose that the story of the ruthless and extravagant Jay Gatsby, narrated by the honest Nick Carraway, continues to live on as the great American classic. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD [1896-1940] was an American author, born in St. Paul, Minnesota. His legendary marriage to Zelda Montgomery, along with their acquaintances with notable figures such as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, and their lifestyle in 1920s Paris, has become iconic. A master of the short story genre, it is logical that his most famous novel is also his shortest: The Great Gatsby [1925].
Author : Ronald Carter
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415243179
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Routledge History of Literature in English written by Ronald Carter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
