The Invention of Pornography
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The Invention of Pornography

Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800

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The Invention of Pornography

Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800

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In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. The first modern writers and engravers of pornography were part of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers, and libertines who constituted the dark underside of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. From the start, early modern European pornography used the shock of sex to test the boundaries and regulation of obscene behavior and expression in the public and private sphere. As such, pornography criticized and even subverted political authorities as well as social and sexual relations.

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Publisher
Zone Books
Year
1993
ISBN
9781935408949
Topic
Littérature
Subtopic
Critique littéraire Histoire et théorie

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introdution: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800
  4. Part One: Early Political and Cultural Meanings
  5. Chapter One: Humanism, Politics and Pornography in Renaissance Italy
  6. Chapter Two: The Politics of Pornography: L'Ecole des Filles
  7. Chapter Three: Sometimes a Scepter is Only a Scepter: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England
  8. Part Two: Philosophical and Formal Qualities
  9. Chapter Four: The Materialist World of Pornography
  10. Chapter Five: Truth and the Obscene Word in Eighteenth-Century French Pornography
  11. Part Three: Eighteenth-Century Vantage Points
  12. Chapter Six: The Libertine Whore: Prostitution in French Pornography from Margot to Juliette
  13. Chapter Seven: Erotic Fantasy and Male Libertinism in Enlightenment England
  14. Chapter Eight: Politics and Pornography in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
  15. Chapter Nine: Pornography and the French Revolution
  16. Notes
  17. Contributors
  18. Index