Enlightenment Erotica
David Nokes, 4 August 1988
Eros Revived: Erotica of the Enlightenment in England and America
by Peter Wagner.
Secker, 498 pp., £30, March 1988,0 436 56051 8 Show More
by Peter Wagner.
Secker, 498 pp., £30, March 1988,
’Tis Nature’s Fault: Unauthorised Sexuality during the Enlightenment
edited by Robert PurksMaccubin.
Cambridge, 260 pp., £25, March 1988,0 521 34539 1 Show More
edited by Robert PurksMaccubin.
Cambridge, 260 pp., £25, March 1988,
The New Eighteenth Century: Theory, Politics, English Literature
edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown.
Methuen, 320 pp., £28, February 1988,0 416 01631 6 Show More
edited by Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown.
Methuen, 320 pp., £28, February 1988,
“... Mary Fiddler, a fine blooming lass of 18, her – is like silk itself, and bubbles as white as snow; she is just in her prime, and fit for business, she is broke in this spring, by a well-known gentleman of the turf. Her movements are regular, her pace elegant, and her action is good: and when you mount her, she begins to f—k away to the tune of the ‘Dandy O ... ”
