Amatory Pleasures : Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture - Julie Peakman

Amatory Pleasures

Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

By: Julie Peakman

Hardcover | 6 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Encompassing the long 18th century, this reader examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, erotic gardens, gentlemen's secret societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating in-between mainstream and unknown activities of the 18th century.
Bringing together in an easily-accessible format material previously available only in academic journals, revising these for a new readership, and including two completely new chapters, Julie Peakman presents the material with an introduction that draws connections between these and current debates, illustrating how the covert life of Georgian sex was integrated from low life and high places, in brothels and palaces.
Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students on gender, history of sexuality, sex literature and 18th-century history courses, this is an invaluable reader of the work of a key scholar in the field.
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"This book is a rich compendium of historical materials, and it attempts to make sense of ideas and attitudes as it presents them ... All of this makes for engaging reading, and the volume works well as an introduction to these topics." - Studies in English Literature

"[This] is a book that will delight readers, both academic and general, in its attention to the preferences, perversions and predilections of eighteenth-century folk." - EuropeNow

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