Launching Fanny Hill: Essays on the Novel and Its InfluencesPatsy Fowler, Alan Jackson A selection of essays providing a broad range of critical approaches encouraging students and teachers of the novel to consider it from a variety of points of view. |
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Page 87
... position in Mrs. Brown's brothel . His duties are never made explicit , but he may be a character whose back- ground in the army , coupled with his position as an employee of Mrs. Brown's , would enable an eighteenth - century reader to ...
... position in Mrs. Brown's brothel . His duties are never made explicit , but he may be a character whose back- ground in the army , coupled with his position as an employee of Mrs. Brown's , would enable an eighteenth - century reader to ...
Page 298
... position comes to the fore . Outside of the gynocentric world of the brothel ( although that world admittedly depends upon a phallocentric economy for its very existence ) Fanny must finally reckon with the misogynistic reality of ...
... position comes to the fore . Outside of the gynocentric world of the brothel ( although that world admittedly depends upon a phallocentric economy for its very existence ) Fanny must finally reckon with the misogynistic reality of ...
Page 340
... position . Once you attain them , it is time for a different text , perhaps Better Homes and Gardens or Fielding's Amelia . In contrast , both Haywood and Behn position sexual grati- fication as necessary to human contentment , but ...
... position . Once you attain them , it is time for a different text , perhaps Better Homes and Gardens or Fielding's Amelia . In contrast , both Haywood and Behn position sexual grati- fication as necessary to human contentment , but ...
Contents
Sapphic Erotics | 3 |
Phallocentric | 49 |
Idealized and Realistic Portrayals of Prostitution In John | 81 |
Copyright | |
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