The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830

by Bradford K. Mudge and Bradford K. Mudge

This fresh and persuasively argued book examines the origins of pornography in Britain and presents a comprehensive overview of women's role in the evolution of obscene fiction. Carefully monitoring the complex interconnections between three related debates--that over the masquerade, that over the novel, and that over prostitution--Mudge contextualizes the growing literary need to separate good fiction from bad and argues that that process was of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195135059
• ISBN13: 9780195135053
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"