The Invention of Pornography
Lynn Hunt
Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. The first modern writers and engravers of pornography were part of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers, and libertines who constituted the dark underside of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution. From the start, early modern European pornography used the shock of sex to test the boundaries and regulation of obscene behavior and expression in the public and private sphere. As such, pornography criticized and even subverted political authorities as well as social and sexual relations.
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Sex industry, The Pornographer, Obscene Publications Acts, Prostitution, Political satire, Sex life, Psychoanalysis, Orgy, Exhibitionism, The History of Sexuality, Masturbation, Sexology, Brothel, Heresy, Cuckold, Obscenity, Censorship, Sexual revolution, Erotic literature, Sexual misconduct, Sacred prostitution, Corruption, Perversion, Pornography, Satire, The Erotic, Incest, Men who have sex with men, Pornographic film, The Counterfeiters (novel), Sensationalism, Sedition, Sexual dysfunction, Counter-Reformation, Adultery, Sexual Desire (book), Ventriloquism, Crime, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Hampton play), Political corruption, Promiscuity, Sodomy, Imbecile, Sacrilege, Despotism, Dirty Story, Pornografia, Seduction, Iconoclasm, Sexual repression, Wickedness, Cannibalism, Cunt, The Rape of Lucretia, Parody, Pederasty, Procuring (prostitution), Lustration, Pedophilia, Burlesque, Subversion, Erotic art, Profanity, Ridicule, Eroticism, Buggery, Rape, Persecution, Fraud, Pornotopia