Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9781554812967 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str.

John Cleland; Richard Terry; Helen Williams

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John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the genre. Cleland's novel is a triumph of literary style, resting on his invention of an entirely new, vividly metaphoric, terminology for describing sexual pleasure.

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• Appendix A: Censorship and its Repeal
• 1. Warrants for the detention of Cleland and others following publication of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Memoirs of Fanny Hill
• 2. Statement of Ralph Griffiths taken before Lovel Stanhope, Law Clerk in the Secretary of State’s office, on 13 November 1749
• 3. Letter of 13 November 1749 from Cleland to Lovel Stanhope, Law Clerk in the Secretary of State’s Office
• 4. John Nichols, obituary of Cleland in the Gentleman’s Magazine (February 1789)
• 5. Statement by Supreme Court Justice Arthur G. Klein ruling that the publication of the Memoirs be protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (August 1963)
• Appendix B: Writing Sex
• 1. From The School of Venus, or, The Ladies Delight, Reduced into Rules of Practice (1680)
• 2. From Thomas Stretzer, A New Description of Merryland. Containing, a topographical, geographical, and natural history of that country (1741)
• 3. From John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love: A Poetical Essay (1745)
• 4. From the Trial of Francis Charteris for Rape (1730)
• 5. Trial of John Deacon and Thomas Blair for Sodomitical Practices (1743)
• 6. From Thomas Cannon’s Ancient and Modern Pederasty Investigated and Exemplify’d (1749)
• Appendix C: Sexual Bodies
• 1. From Nicholas Venette, The Pleasures of Conjugal-Love explain’d (1740?)
• 2. From William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies (1737)
• 3. From La Mettrie, Man A Machine (1749)
• 4. From Cleland, Institutes of Health (1761)
• Appendix D: Prostitution
• 1. From Cleland, The Case of the Unfortunate Bosavern Penlez (1749)
• 2. From Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Fanny Murray (1759)
• 3. From Genuine Memoirs of the Celebrated Miss Maria Brown (1766)
• 4. From Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies (1757-1795)
• Appendix E: Cleland’s Writings on the Novel
• 1. Cleland, Review of Tobias Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle, from The Monthly Review (March 1751)
• 2. Cleland, Review of Henry Fielding’s Amelia, from The Monthly Review (December 1751)
• 3. From Cleland, The Dictionary of Love (1753)
• 4. From Cleland’s commentary on Historical and Physical Dissertation on the Case of Catherine Vizzani, by Giovanni Bianchi (1751)