Eighteenth-Century British Erotica, Part I vol 5

Herausgeber: Norton, Rictor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 904g
• ISBN-13: 9781138752672
• ISBN-10: 1138752673
• Artikelnr.: 75481073

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
An Apology for a Latin Verse in Commendation of Mr. Marten's Gonosologium Novum (1709)
A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1727
for 1726?)
Cunicularii; or
The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation (1726)
The Discovery: or
The Squire Turn'd Ferret (1727
for 1726)
The Man-Midwife Unmasqu'd (1738
first published 1734)
The Trial of Lady Ann Foley; for Adultery (1778)
The History of Colonel Francis Ch-rtr-s (1730)
Modern Propensities; or
An Essay on the Art of Strangling (1791)
A Genuine Narrative of All the Street Robberies Committed Since October Last
by James Dalton and His Accomplices (1728)
A Faithful Narrative of the Proceedings in a Late Affair Between John Swinton and George Baker (1739)
The Female Husband: or
The Surprising History of Mrs. Mary
Alias Mr. George Hamilton (1746)
Notes to the Texts
Index to Primary Texts