Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Seventeenth-Century England

by Sarah Toulalan

Imagining Sex is a study of pornographic writing in seventeenth-century England. It explores a wide variety of written material from the period to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it one that was usually subject at this time to suppression. Pornographic writing was a widespread feature of a range of texts, including both popular literature (ballads, news-sheets, court reports, small books, and pamphlets) as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199209146
• ISBN13: 9780199209149
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"