Eighteenth-Century British Erotica Part II vol 1

Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history. Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Introduction, Almonds for Parrots: or, A Soft Answer to a Scurrilous Satyr, Call’d, St. James’s Park (1708), The Benefit of Farting Explain’d: or, The Fundament-All Cause of the Distempers Incident to the Fair Sex, Inquir’d Into (1722), Arse Musica; or, The Lady’s Back Report to Don Fart-in-hand-o Puff-in dorst (1722), Monsieur Thing’s Origin (1722), Serious and Cleanly Meditations upon a House of Office (1723), The Beau’s Miscellany (1731), Spiritual Fornication. A Burlesque Poem (1732), The Harlot’s Progress: or, The Humours of Drury-Lane (1732), Love in All Its Shapes: or, The Way of a Man with a Woman (1734), Pretty Doings in a Protestant Nation (1734), An Essay upon Improving and Adding, to the Strength of Great-Britain and Ireland, by Fornication (1735), A Genuine Epistle Written Some Time Since to the Late Famous Mother Lodge (1735), Notes to the Texts