Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

Julie Peakman (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 October 2016
Pages
240
ISBN
9781474226431

Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

Julie Peakman (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)

Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen’s homosocial societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating between mainstream and covert activities of the 18th century. Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates and examines how Georgian sexual activity was integrated from low life and high places, from brothels to palaces.

Aimed at anyone interested in gender, history of sexuality, sex, literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable collection of the work of a key scholar in the field.

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