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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... taste as incompatible with the existence of social life itself : On a superficial view , we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings , and no less in our plea- sures : but notwithstanding this difference , which ...
... taste as incompatible with the existence of social life itself : On a superficial view , we may seem to differ very widely from each other in our reasonings , and no less in our plea- sures : but notwithstanding this difference , which ...
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... taste must be derived : For as the senses are the great originals of all our ideas , and consequently of all our pleasures , if they are not uncer- tain and arbitrary , the whole ground - work of Taste is com- mon to all , and therefore ...
... taste must be derived : For as the senses are the great originals of all our ideas , and consequently of all our pleasures , if they are not uncer- tain and arbitrary , the whole ground - work of Taste is com- mon to all , and therefore ...
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... taste , the body , and novelty mapped out in the aesthetic writings reviewed in this section . While the novel narrows the focus from taste in general to sexual taste in particular , it sets out with almost identical goals : to account ...
... taste , the body , and novelty mapped out in the aesthetic writings reviewed in this section . While the novel narrows the focus from taste in general to sexual taste in particular , it sets out with almost identical goals : to account ...
Contents
Sapphic Erotics | 3 |
Phallocentric | 49 |
Idealized and Realistic Portrayals of Prostitution In John | 81 |
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