Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

by Julie Peakman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474226434
• ISBN13: 9781474226431
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"