"The four-volume set provides a compendium of rare primary sources focusing on pornography in nineteenth-century Britain for students and scholars alike. These sources can be used individually and in combination to historicise the emergence of pornography and investigate the aspects of society that it illuminates. The pornography of the period documents how people imagined sexuality in their changing society. These volumes provide primary sources that give scholars and students a starting point to explore these shifts and how the historic context shaped ideas of sexuality at every level"--
This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations. By the early nineteenth-century, pornographic publications came out of the radical milieu during the global age of revolutions. In England, publishers wrote political philosophy and pornography in tandem.
This volume provides background texts for the early modern origins of pornography including its philosophic and literary foundations. By the early nineteenth-century, pornographic publications came out of the radical milieu during the global age of revolutions. In England, publishers wrote political philosophy and pornography in tandem. The age of revolutionary pornography ended in the 1860s, when William Dugdale, the doyen of them all, died in prison, sentenced to hard labour for obscenity. The volume documents radical publishers including their publications, their trade records, their arrest records, their court trials, and their political goals. It also includes materials from the Society for the Suppression of Vice and other early attempts to limit obscenity and vice.
Volume 1: Textual Cultures of Pornography
Edited by Kathleen Lubey
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Chronology
List of Illustrations
General Introduction
Volume 1 Introduction
Bibliography
Part
1. Pornographic Novels: Reprints of Eighteenth-Century Sources
1. John Cleland, Memoirs of the Life of the Celebrated Miss Fanny Hill
(London, H. Smith [ William Dugdale], 1841)
2. Anonymous, Memoirs of a Man of Pleasure in The Exquisite: A Collection of
Tales, Histories, and Essays, Funny, Fanciful, and Facetious, vol. 3, nos.
120-135, (London, H. Smith [ William Dugdale], 1844), pp. 125-8, 133, 166-7,
197-200
3. Anon., The Child of Nature, Improved by Chance. A Philosophical Novel.
(London, T. Becket, 1774), pp. 193-98, 253-62, 287-94, 278-80
4. Title page, The Philosophy of Pleasure, a reprint of The Child of Nature
(Edward Avery and Arthur Reader, 1885)
Part II. Libertine and Philosophical Legacies
5. The Works of the Famous Philosopher, containing His Complete Master-Piece
(London, J. Smith, [ c. 1860]), pp. 15-19, 81-2, 103, 256-7
6. Selected Poetical Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscomon [ sic], and
Dorset; including the Cabinet of Love (London, 1757), pp. v-xxii, 23-4,
39-50, 51-58, 60-1, 64, 66-74, 76
7. The Singular Life, Amatory Adventures, and Extraordinary Intrigues of John
Wilmot, the Renowned Earl of Rochester (London, Henry Smith [ William
Dugdale], 1860), pp. 13-17, 23-31, 170-73
8. John Wilkes, An Essay on Woman [ 1763] in The Exquisite: A Collection of
Tales, Histories and Essays, Funny, Fanciful and Facetious. Vol. 2 (London,
Henry Smith [ William Dugdale], 1843)
9. Anecdote [ about John Wilkes] in The Exquisite: A Collection of Tales,
Histories and Essays, Funny, Fanciful and Facetious. Vol.
2. (London, Henry
Smith [ William Dugdale], 1843)
10. Richard Payne Knight, A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus (London,
1786)
11. Selected Prints and Illustrations by Thomas Rowlandson, c. 1799-1810.
The Connoisseurs. London, 1799
Cunnyseurs. London, c. 1810
Gratification of the Senses a la Mode Francois. London, 1800
Black Brown and Fair. London, 1807
Pretty Little Games for young ladies and gentlemen. London, 1845
Part III. Policing Pornographers
12. Excerpt from The Constables Assistant: being a compendium of the duties
and powers of constables, and other peace officers, compiled by the Society
for the Suppression of Vice (London, 1808).
13. Excerpt from an Address to the Public, from the Society for the
Suppression of Vice, by the Society for the Suppression of Vice (London,
1803).
14. Society for the Suppression of Vice pamphlet [ excerpts] (London, 1825).
15. Proceedings of the Kings Bench against William Dugdale, Edward Duncombe,
and George Cannon, 1852-1853
16. [ Letter from William Dugdale to the editor, accusing newspaper of libel],
The Morning Chronicle, November 29,
1827.
17. [ William Dugdale Conviction and Sentencing], The Morning Post, September
25,
1851.
18. [ William Dugdales suit against the Society for the Suppression of Vice],
Reynoldss Newspaper, July 20,
1856.
19. [ William Dugdale Conviction], Huddersfield Chronicle, May 16, 1857
20. [ William Dugdale Obituary], Sheffield Independent, November 21,
1868.
Part
4. Pornography and Periodical Culture
21. The Exhibition of Female Flagellants (London, William Dugdale, c.1840
[ orig. 1777], pp. 12-14, 40-2, 47-8
22. Letters Addressed to the Editor of the Englishwomans Domestic Magazine
on the Whipping of Girls, and the General Corporal Punishment of Children,
Supplemental Conversazione of the Englishwomans Domestic Magazine
(July-November, 1870)
23. The Bon Ton Magazine; or, Microscope of Fashion and Folly, excerpts and
illustrations, 5 Vols. (London, 1791-1796)
24. The Exquisite: A Collection of Tales, Histories and Essays, Funny,
Fanciful and Facetious, excerpts and illustrations, 3 Vols. (London,
1842-1844).
25. The Pearl. A Journal of Facetiæ, Voluptuous Reading, excerpts and
illustrations, 3 vols. (London, Society of Vice [ William Lazenby],
1879-1880).
Part
5. Pornographic Novels: Nineteenth-Century Originals
26. The Lustful Turk, or Scenes in the Harem of an Eastern Potentate (London,
Society of Vice, c. 1828), pp. 22-7, 55-7, 113-14, 116-22, 130-33
27. Seraglio Scenes; or Such Things Are. By the Author of the Lustful Turk
(London, Betsy Wilson [ J.B. Brookes], c. 1830), pp. 11-16, 22-4, 68-74,
81-6,
28. The Seducing Cardinals Amours with Isabella Peto and Others (London,
Madame Le Duck [ William Lazenby and Edward Avery, 1830), pp. 3-5, 8-12, 20-5,
29-30
29. The Inutility of Virtue. A Tale of Lust and Licentiousness, Exemplified
in the History of a Young and Beautiful Lady Modest and Virtuous (London,
Society of Vice, c. 1830), pp. 67-82
Index
30. The Adventures, Intrigues, and Amours of a Ladys Maid! Written by
Herself (London, J. Ryder [ John Dugdale], 1822), pp. 9-21, 59-66, 86-96
31. [ James Campbell Reddie], The Adventures of a Schoolboy; or, the Freaks of
Youthful Passion (London, 1866), pp. 10-13, 32-38, 44-45, 50-57, 70-73
Kathleen Lubey is Professor of English at St. Johns University, where she teaches courses on eighteenth-century literature, culture, sexuality, feminism, and race; queer studies, feminist theory, and the history of sexuality; and literary theory and research methods.
