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

New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 1993.

411 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index

Introduction : Obscenity and the origin of modernity, 1500-1800 / Lynn Hunt -- Humanism, politics and pornography in Renaissance Italy / Paula Findlen -- The politics of pornography : L'école des filles / Joan DeJean -- Sometimes a scepter is only a scepter : pornography and politics in Restoration England / Rachel Weil -- The materialist world of pornography / Margaret C. Jacob -- Truth and the obscene word in eighteenth-century French pornography / Lucienne Frappier-Mazur -- The libertine whore : prostitution in French pornography from Margot to Juliette / Kathryn Norberg -- Erotic fantasy and male libertinism in Enlightenment England / Randolph Trumbach -- Politics and pornography in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Wijnand W. Mijnhardt -- Pornography and the French Revolution / Lynn Hunt.

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