Literary Criticism (1400-1800)

Cleland, John | Further Reading

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Bouce, Paul Gabriel, ed. Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble Books, 1982, 262 P.

Collection of essays dealing with social, cultural, and intellectual attitudes toward sex and virginity in eighteenth-century Britain, with some reference to Cleland and his works.

Brophy, Brigid. "Mersey Sound 1750." In her Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews, pp. 76-80. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967.

Review of the 1963 edition of Fanny Hill in which Brophy describes the work as "a highly engaging little erotic tale" possessing true literary qualities.

Charney, Maurice. "Two Sexual Lives, Entrepreneurial and Compulsive: Fanny Hill and My Secret Life." In his Sexual Fiction, pp. 71-92. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1981.

Compares the buoyant and colorful eighteenth-century Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure with the...

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