'Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521347688 ISBN 13: 9780521347686

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Synopsis

The essays in this volume address sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were for one reason or another outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability: most notably, unwed heterosexual domesticity, masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality, and erotic literature. The contributors' essays make an important first step toward integrating sexuality into our general understanding of eighteenth century culture. Contributors: Roy Porter; Jean-Marie Goulemot with Odile Wagner and Arthur Greenspan, translators; John R. Gillis; Theodore Tarczylo with James Coke and Michael Murray, translators; Vern L. Bullough; James G. Turner; Jean-Pierre Guicciardi with Michael Murray, translator; David Coward; Randolph Trumbach; Michel Delon, with Nelly Stephane, translator; G. S. Rousseau; Arend H. Huussen, Jr.; Michael Rey with Robert A. Day and Robert Welch, translators; Peter Sabor; Paul-Gabriel Bouce Robert J. Ellrich; Robert L. Dawson; Armando Marchi with James Cook and David Marsh, translators.

About this title

Book Description:

A consideration of "unsanctified" sexual phenomena in eighteenth century Europe includes essays on masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality and erotic literature.

Review:

"The work is well documented and indispensable for an understanding of the development of sexual, political and social attitudes and behavior during the enlightenment." The Eighteenth Century

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0521347688
• ISBN 13: 9780521347686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Maccubbin Robert Purks