Poetica Erotica

Poetica Erotica PDF Author: Thomas Robert Smith
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Poetica Erotica

Poetica Erotica PDF Author: Thomas Robert Smith
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Sex

Sex PDF Author: Madonna
Publisher: Harvill Secker
ISBN: 9780436270840
Category : Erotica
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930

Clandestine Erotic Fiction in English 1800–1930 PDF Author: Peter Mendes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351951076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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This work offers bibliographical descriptions of all printings of erotic fiction in English issued clandestinely during the period 1800-1930. By 'clandestine' is meant books whose publishers and printers attempt to hide their identities, usually by offering title pages whose misleading places and dates of publication may shock and amuse, but which always aim to mystify. Using internal and external evidence, an attempt is made to establish who were the printers, booksellers and publishers, English and Continental, involved in this trade. The printing families or 'groups' into which a large percentage of the material falls are classified, accompanied by illustrations which identify the main printing characteristics ('house styles') of the groups. Bibliographical descriptions follow a checklist of clandestine catalogues; these provide valuable evidence for dating, pricing and 'sales pitch' and information on items of which no copies can now be traced. The work concludes with a series of appendices which provide significant external evidence, and three indexes: of themes, titles and names. Peter Mendes' original research builds on and significantly extends the essential pioneer work of the Victorian collector and bibliographer H.S. Ashbee ('Pisanus Fraxi').

Killing Time

Killing Time PDF Author: Della Van Hise
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743419758
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Second History: a Romulan time-tampering project that has transported the Enterprise and the galaxy into an alternate dimension of reality. Now, Kirk is an embittered young ensign and Spock is a beseiged Starship commander. Lured into a Romulan trap, Captain Spock and Ensign Kirk must free themselves from both their captors and their own altered selves...before the galaxy hurtles toward total destruction!

The Erotic Life of Manuscripts

The Erotic Life of Manuscripts PDF Author: Yii-Jan Lin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019027980X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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New Testament textual critics who used language to group texts into families and genealogies were not pioneering new approaches, but rather borrowing the metaphors and methods of natural scientists. Texts began to be classified into "families, tribes, and nations," and later were racialized as "African" or "Asian," with distinguishable "textual physiognomies" and "textual complexions." These genealogies would later be traced to show the inheritance of "corruptions" and "contamination" through generations, an understanding of textual diversity reflective of eighteenth- and ninteenth-century European anxieties over racial corruption and degeneration. While these biological metaphors have been powerful tools for textual critics, they also produce problematic understandings of textual "purity" and agency, with the use of scientific discourse artificially separating the work of textual criticism from literary interpretation.

Fragments from the Delta of Venus

Fragments from the Delta of Venus PDF Author: Anaïs Nin
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN: 9781576871829
Category : Erotic painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Fragments from the Delta of Venus is an amazing collaboration between feminist artist Judy Chicago and Iconic writer Anais Nin, where Chicago's paintings illustrate Nin's most sensual passages from her classic collection of erotic stories.

A Catalogue of Medieval Literature, Especially of the Romances of Chivalry, and Books Relating to the Customs, Costume, Art, and Pageantry of the Middle Ages

A Catalogue of Medieval Literature, Especially of the Romances of Chivalry, and Books Relating to the Customs, Costume, Art, and Pageantry of the Middle Ages PDF Author: Bernard Quaritch
Publisher:
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Category : Literature, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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A Study of Erotic Literature in England

A Study of Erotic Literature in England PDF Author: W. v. Murat
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3749449112
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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The present work fills a gap as it attempts to offer a history of erotic literature published in the United Kingdom. The word Study in the title is perhaps a bit exaggerated as the material is largely taken from the now well known bibliographies by Pisanus Fraxi (Henry Spencer Ashbee) and quotations from the books themselves. The time line is WW II. Who was the author? He may have been Charles Reginald Dawes (1879-1964) who is supposed to have written (but not published) a text of this or a similar title. His profession or his activities are not known - he once called himself a writer but library catalogues credit him only with two publications: The Marquis de Sade (Paris 1927) and Retif de la Bretonne (London 1946, privately printed). He may have been a popular writer under pseudonyms, though. Dawes owned a good erotica collection which he willed to the British Museum Library; that would explain why the author of this Study - if he was Dawes - could quote freely from erotic texts which only few of his contemporaries would have had available. The main merits of this book are that the author was thoroughly familiar with English (and French) erotic literature and that he put his material in chronological order and in context. The editor added a number of references, illustrations and indices of personal names and titles to facilitate navigation.

Bad Books

Bad Books PDF Author: Amy S. Wyngaard
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494206
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Bad Books reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme R tif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development of modern conceptions of sexuality and pornography. Although certain details are well known (for example, that R tif's 1769 treatise on prostitution, Le Pornographe, is the work from which the term pornography is derived, or that he was an avid foot and shoe fetishist), much of this story has been obscured and even forgotten including how the author actively worked to define the category of obscenity and the modern pornographic genre, and how he coined the psycho-sexual term "fetish" and played a central role in the formation of theories of sexual fetishism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus this book is also about literary history and how it is written: it explores how R tif, perceived as a bad author in both senses of the term, and his contributions were glossed over or condemned, such that the originality of his texts has still not been fully established. Placing R tif's novels and short stories in dialogue with his autobiographical writings as well as with contemporary and modern critical commentaries, the various chapters of the book examine the author's repeated testing of the limits of censorship to define and redefine the boundaries of obscenity; his advancement of the modern form and definition of pornography through a focus on intimacy and (female) pleasure; his detailed narrative explorations of foot and shoe fetishisms that were later appropriated by the sexologists; and his development of theories of eugenics and reproduction in his utopian science fiction. The history of R tif's texts and their reception reveals an evolution in the criteria of what is considered to be "good" or "worthy" literature--a category once defined purely on moral grounds that is increasingly seen in cultural terms. Bad Books corroborates the recent resurgence of interest in the author by showing the import of his texts, which not only designate a number of firsts in the histories of sexuality and pornography, but which also illuminate some of the defining moments in the history of French literary studies.

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Sale PDF Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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