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 Purks Maccubin.
Cambridge, 260 pp., £25, March 1988,0 521 34539 1 Show More
edited by Robert Purks Maccubin.
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,
“... to the fact, alleged by Rousseau, that the commander of the British forces was gay. Although Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown diplomatically avoid so vivid a phrase as ‘prudery and cowardice’, their charges against the conservatism of the Augustan establishment are scarcely less severe. For them the taboo areas are not sexual but ... ”
