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.
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"When Flesh Becomes Word brings together a fascinting collection of material in which sexual titilation was fused with various genres of fact and fiction."--Elizabeth J. Scott-Baumann, Times Literary Supplement
"Given the rarity and yet the unacknowledged importance of these kinds of work, Mudge provides a significant service for understanding both the origins of the novel and the special character of pornography. Highly recommended."--Library Journal
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Bradford K. Mudge is Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Denver. He is the author of The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830 (Oxford, 2000).
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Roger a young Gentleman being passionately in love with Katherine a Virgin of admirable beauty, but so extreamly simple, having always been brought up under the rigid Government of her Mother, who was Wife of a Substantial Citizen, that all his perswasions could do no good on her, by reason she understood not any thing that appertained to love, he therefore by force of presents and other allurements gains a Kins-Woman of hers named Frances to his Party, and she having promised Roger to sollicite Katherine, in his behalf makes her a visit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Man's Yard, Father Theodore, Don Grassio, Sister Catherine, Man's Seed, Gonosologium Novum, Pere de Raucourt, Ambrose Parry, Genital Liquor, Pray Cousin, Sheath of the Womb, Sister Magdalene, Sister Pasythea, The Female Husband, Venereal Appetite, Iron Grate, Man's Member, Person of Quality New!
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Roger a young Gentleman being passionately in love with Katherine a Virgin of admirable beauty, but so extreamly simple, having always been brought up under the rigid Government of her Mother, who was Wife of a Substantial Citizen, that all his perswasions could do no good on her, by reason she understood not any thing that appertained to love, he therefore by force of presents and other allurements gains a Kins-Woman of hers named Frances to his Party, and she having promised Roger to sollicite Katherine, in his behalf makes her a visit. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Man's Yard, Father Theodore, Don Grassio, Sister Catherine, Man's Seed, Gonosologium Novum, Pere de Raucourt, Ambrose Parry, Genital Liquor, Pray Cousin, Sheath of the Womb, Sister Magdalene, Sister Pasythea, The Female Husband, Venereal Appetite, Iron Grate, Man's Member, Person of Quality New!
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- Eros Revived (Paladin Books) by Peter Wagner on 7 pages
- Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford World's Classics) by John Cleland on 4 pages
- Early Modern Hermaphrodites: Sex and Other Stories by Ruth Gilbert in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture by Walter Kendrick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 by William B. Warner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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