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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... readers , some of whom undoubtedly participated in homosexual acts , but then he immediately denounces it for fear of alienating his homophobic readers.27 Cleland justifies Fanny's , and thereby the reader's , viewing of the scene in ...
... readers , some of whom undoubtedly participated in homosexual acts , but then he immediately denounces it for fear of alienating his homophobic readers.27 Cleland justifies Fanny's , and thereby the reader's , viewing of the scene in ...
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... reader Fanny's failure to conceive other than when it is opportune for her to do so implies a serious breach of credibility , it is important to remember that an eighteenth- century reader would have found a prostitute's “ natural ...
... reader Fanny's failure to conceive other than when it is opportune for her to do so implies a serious breach of credibility , it is important to remember that an eighteenth- century reader would have found a prostitute's “ natural ...
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... reader , most notably the female reader , access to Cleland's text as not only a recapitulation of the misogynies inherent in heterosexist culture but as a space of proliferating sexualities as well . Nevertheless , our non - parodic ...
... reader , most notably the female reader , access to Cleland's text as not only a recapitulation of the misogynies inherent in heterosexist culture but as a space of proliferating sexualities as well . Nevertheless , our non - parodic ...
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Sapphic Erotics | 3 |
Phallocentric | 49 |
Idealized and Realistic Portrayals of Prostitution In John | 81 |
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