Vibrations
Margaret Anne Doody, 5 August 1993
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in 18th-century Britain
by G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992,0 226 03713 4 Show More
by G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992,
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context
by Ann Jessie van Sant.
Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993,0 521 40226 3 Show More
by Ann Jessie van Sant.
Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993,
Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the 18th Century
by Philip Rawlings.
Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992,0 415 05056 1 Show More
by Philip Rawlings.
Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992,
Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830
by Rictor Norton.
Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992,0 85449 188 0 Show More
by Rictor Norton.
Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992,
“... masculinity as a concept. In Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830, Rictor Norton makes us look closely at the men who broke the rules of masculinity in England in the 18th century. He has some fascinating material about what was going on in London. Molly houses – i.e. ‘public houses and alehouses or taverns where ... ”
