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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... pleasures they produce . In the process of developing a workable cultural consen- sus about the allowable limits of sexual activity that is not immedi- ately ( re ) productive , it was necessary to scrutinize all forms of sexual ...
... pleasures they produce . In the process of developing a workable cultural consen- sus about the allowable limits of sexual activity that is not immedi- ately ( re ) productive , it was necessary to scrutinize all forms of sexual ...
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... pleasure they produce , or be- cause the difference resulted from a minority of ridiculous dissent- ers setting up their absurd opinions in the face of common sense . Yet Hume actually proceeds to argue that " the generality of men ...
... pleasure they produce , or be- cause the difference resulted from a minority of ridiculous dissent- ers setting up their absurd opinions in the face of common sense . Yet Hume actually proceeds to argue that " the generality of men ...
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... pleasures set forth in the novel . Unlike lesbianism , that is , male homosexuality is beyond any accounting by the ... pleasure may be , nature will on occasion produce imperfect figures - Barvilles and " perhaps ' Phoebes , not to ...
... pleasures set forth in the novel . Unlike lesbianism , that is , male homosexuality is beyond any accounting by the ... pleasure may be , nature will on occasion produce imperfect figures - Barvilles and " perhaps ' Phoebes , not to ...
Contents
Sapphic Erotics | 3 |
Phallocentric | 49 |
Idealized and Realistic Portrayals of Prostitution In John | 81 |
Copyright | |
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