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The Invention of pornography: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800

Hunt, Lynn Avery.

Year: 1993.

Publisher: Zone Books.

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Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800

PART ONE EARLY POLITICAL AND CULTURAL MEANINGS

I Humanism, Politics and Pornography in Renaissance Italy

II The Politics of Pornography: L'Ecole des Filles

III Sometimes a Scepter is Only a Scepter: Pornography and Politics in Restoration England

PART TWO PHILOSOPHICAL AND FORMAL QUALITIES

IV The Materialist World of Pornography

V Truth and the Obscene Word in Eighteenth-Century French Pornography

PART THREE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VANTAGE POINTS

VI The Libertine Whore: Prostitution in French Pornography from Margot to Juliette

VII Erotic Fantasy and Male Libertinism in Enlightenment England

VIII Politics and Pornography in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

IX Pornography and the French Revolution

Notes

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Title:

The Invention of pornography : obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800 edited by Lynn Hunt.

Author:

Hunt, Lynn Avery

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The Invention of pornography : obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800 edited by Lynn Hunt.
Hunt, Lynn Avery
New York: Zone Books, 1993.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02143

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• Social history
• Pornography -- Europe -- History

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