Fanny Hill In Bombay

Author : Hal Gladfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421404907
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Hill in Bombay written by Hal Gladfelder and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England. Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast. As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland’s writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Hal Gladfelder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781421428376
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Hill in Bombay written by Hal Gladfelder and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known.In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland's tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England.Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland's career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast.As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland's writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.

Author : In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781340147600
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Fanny Hill written by In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141905034
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure written by John Cleland and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naïve young woman begins her sexual initiation - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire - and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love. John Cleland's story of Fanny's rise to respectability was denounced after its publication by the then Bishop of London as 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners', while James Boswell called it 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. But beside its highly entertaining and boisterous depictions of a startling variety of sexual acts, Fanny Hill stands as one of the great works of eighteenth-century fiction for its unique combination of parody, erotica and philosophy of sensuality.

Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793815545
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LETTER THE FIRSTI sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering yourdesires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, Ishall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which Iemerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power oflove, health and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease andaffluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicableone, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had beentossed in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners ofthe world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who, looking on all though or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it atas great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy.Hating, as I mortally do, all long unnecessary prefaces, I shall giveyou good quarter in this, and use no farther apology, than to prepareyou for seeing the loose part of my life, written with the same libertythat I led it.Truth! stark, naked truth, is the word; and I will not so much astake the pains to bestow the strip of a gauze wrapper on it, but paintsituations such as they actually rose to me in nature, careless ofviolating those laws of decency that were never made for such unreservedintimacies as ours; and you have too much sense, too much knowledge ofthe originals, to sniff prudishly and out of character at the picturesof them. The greatest men, those of the first and most leading taste, will not scruple adorning their private closets with nudities, though, in compliance with vulgar prejudices, they may not think them decentdecorations of the staircase, or salon.This, and enough, premised, I go souse into my personal history.My maiden name was Frances Hill. I was born at a small village nearLiverpool, in Lancashire, of parents extremely poor, and, I piouslybelieve, extremely honest.My father, who had received a maim on his limbs, that disabled himfrom following the more laborious branches of country drudgery, got, by making nets, a scanty subsistence, which was not much enlarged by mymother's keeping a little day-school for the girls in her neighborhood.They had had several children; but none lived to any age except myself, who had received from nature a constitution perfectly healthy.My education, till past fourteen, was no better than very vulgar: reading, or rather spelling, an illegible scrawl, and a little ordinaryplain work, composed the whole system of it; and then all my foundationin virtue was no other than a total ignorance of vice, and the shytimidity general to our sex, in the tender age of life, when objectsalarm or frighten more by their novelty than anything else. But then, this is a fear too often cured at the expense of innocence, when Miss, by degrees, begins no longer to look on a man as a creature of prey thatwill eat her.My poor mother had divided her time so entirely between her scholarsand her little domestic cares, that she had spared very little to myinstruction, having, from her own innocence from all ill, no hint orthought of guarding me aga

Author : Kate Lister
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783528060
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Curious History of Sex written by Kate Lister and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless. The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from. Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister’s extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Kate unashamedly roots around in the pants of history, debunking myths, challenging stereotypes and generally getting her hands dirty. This fascinating book is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang, and illustrated with eye-opening, toe-curling and meticulously sourced images from the past. You will laugh, you will wince and you will wonder just how much has actually changed.

Author : John Cleland
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312912766
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Secret Needs - 3 Classic Novels of Feminine Passion written by John Cleland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a century before 50 Shades of Grey, novels of feminine passions had been setting the stage and bending the morals laws which made erotica novels possible. Fanny Hill is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland. One of the most prosecuted and banned books in history, it has become a synonym for obscenity. Venus in Furs is a novella by the Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the best known of his works. The novel draws themes, like female dominance and sadomasochism, and character inspiration heavily from Sacher-Masoch's own life. Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words. This edition is a collection of these three erotica classics, perfect for study or inspiration for your own writing muse.

Author : John Cleland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781707034581
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.John Cleland (1709 - 1789) was an English novelist, most famous-and infamous-as the author of the erotic novel Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant; he was also a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed good finances and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London.Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for financial reasons, but whatever misbehavior or allegation had led to his departure is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Cleland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whatever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving school. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He returned to London when recalled by his dying father. Upon William's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John. John Cleland (1709 - 1789) was an English novelist, most famous-and infamous-as the author of the erotic novel Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant; he was also a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed good finances and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London.Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for financial reasons, but whatever misbehavior or allegation had led to his departure is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Cleland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whatever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving school. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He returned to London when recalled by his dying father. Upon William's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John.

Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Allied Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9788177649079
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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