Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 1

by Chris Mounsey (Editor), Rictor Norton (Editor)

Overview

This set reprints many of the 18th century's most notorious works, including eight from "The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head" (1707), that resulted in highly publicized court battles and in some cases helped shape laws on censorship that survived into modernity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138752634
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/25/2002
Pages:	406
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Introduction, The Pleasures of a Single Life, or, The Miseries of Matrimony (1701) and The Choice, or, The Pleasures of a Country-Life (1700), An Answer to The Pleasures of a Single Life: or, The Comforts of Marriage Confirm’d and Vindicated (1701), The Ladies Choice (1702), The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: or, Looking-glass for All Those Who Have Enter’d in That Holy and Comfortable State (1706), The Batchelors and Maids Answer to The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony (1706?), The Fifteen Comforts of Whoring, or, The Pleasures of a Town-Life (1706), The Whores and Bawd’s Answer to The Fifteen Comforts of Whoring (1706), The Fifteen Comforts of Cuckoldom (1706), The Fifteen Comforts of a Wanton Wife (1707), The Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head (1707), The Maids Vindication: or, The Fifteen Comforts of Living a Single Life (1707), The Fifteen Pleasures of a Virgin (1709), The Insinuating Bawd and the Repenting Harlot (1700?), The Constables Hue and Cry After Whores and Bawds (1700?), The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life (1699/1700?), A Full and True Account of a Dreadful Fire that Lately Broke Out in the Pope’s Breeches (1713), Notes to the Texts