Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800 : Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity,9780942299694

Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800 : Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780942299694
ISBN10: 0942299698
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-08-26
Publisher(s): Zone Books
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Summary

In America today the debate over the censorship of pornography continues to call into question the values of a modern, democratic culture. The Invention of Pornography, a groundbreaking collection of critical essays, traces the history and uses of pornography in early modern Europe, offering for the first time the historical perspective crucial to understanding current controversies in politics and the arts.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 7(2)
Introduction: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 9(40)
Lynn Hunt
Part One Early Political and Cultural Meanings
Humanism, Politics and Pornography in Renaissance Italy
49(60)
Paula Findlen
The Politics of Pornography: L'Ecole des Filles
109(16)
Joan DeJean
Sometimes a Scepter is Only a Scepter: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England
125(32)
Rachel Weil
Part Two Philosophical and Formal Qualities
The Materialist World of Pornography
157(46)
Margaret C. Jacob
Truth and the Obscene Word in Eighteenth-Century French Pornography
203(22)
Lucienne Frappier-Mazur
Part Three Eighteenth-Century Vantage Points
The Libertine Whore: Prostitution in French Pornography from Margot to Juliette
225(28)
Kathryn Norberg
Erotic Fantasy and Male Libertinism in Enlightenment England
253(30)
Randolph Trumbach
Politics and Pornography in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic
283(18)
Wijnand W. Mijnhardt
Pornography and the French Revolution
301(40)
Lynn Hunt
Notes 341(60)
Contributors 401(2)
Index 403

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