Eros revived : erotica of the enlightenment in England and America / Peter Wagner

London; Secker & Warburg, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 498 pages ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-478) and index. Contents; 1. Medical and para-medical literature: 1. The sex guides. 2. The literature on masturbation. 3. Freaks and kinky sex. 4. The science of sexology -- 2. Anti-religious erotica: 1. Libertinism in Britain. 2. Erotica against the Church of England and dissenters. 3. Erotica against the Roman Catholic Church -- 3. Anti-aristocratic erotica: 1. French anti-aristocratic erotica. 2. French �migr� writers in London. 3. English anti-aristocratic erotica -- 4. Trial reporters and 'criminal conversation': 1. Crime and sex. 2. 'Criminal conversation' literature -- 5. Matrimony and the war of the sexes: 1. Prostitution. 2. The cuckold as literary figure. 3. Matrimony -- 6. Poetry and facetiae: 1. The tradition : Antiquity, the Continent, and the Restoration. 2. Songs, jests, and riddles. 3. The verse tale. 4. Scatology. 5. The extended metaphor -- 7. Erotic prose: 1. Short prose fiction. 2. The novel : 2.1. The erotic novel. 2.2. The French erotic novel. 2.3. The amatory novel and the 'chronique scandaleuse'. 2.4. The whore biography. 2.5. The pornographic novel. 3. Erotic magazines. 4. Plays in print and in the theatre -- 8. Pictorial erotica: 1. Literature and pictures : and vice versa. 2. Pornography : 'postures'. 3. Foreign pictorial erotica. 4. English pictorial erotica -- 9. Erotica in early America: 1. Eros in the wilderness, 1620-1700. 2. The importation and publication of European erotica in eighteenth-century America. 3. American erotica.Subjects; Erotic literature, English History and criticism. Erotic literature, American History and criticism. American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism. American literature 1783-1850 History and criticism.