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100 1 $aCleland, John,$d1709-1789,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMemoirs of a woman of pleasure /$cJohn Cleland ; edited by Richard Terry and Helen Williams.
264 1 $aOntario, Canada :$bBroaview Press,$c2018.
300 $a335 pages:$billustrations;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aBroadview editions
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $a"John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure has been described as the first erotic novel in English and is perhaps the greatest example of the genre. From the outset it was mired in disrepute. Cleland penned the novel to liberate himself from debtors' prison, and the book's manifestly lewd content led to its legal suppression within a year of publication. Though versions of the novel, nearly always abridged in some form, continued to find a way into print, the Memoirs remained an underground text until the 1960s. Only as that decade ushered in a culture less sociallyential and more sexually permissive was the moment opportune for the obscenity ban to be successfully challenged. Cleland's novel is a triumph of literary style, resting on his invention of an entirely new, vividly metaphoric, terminology for describing sexual pleasure. This edition provides extensive materials on Cleland's biography and career, contemporary censorship, and pornography and prostitution in the eighteenth century."--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aProstitutes$vFiction.
651 0 $aLondon (England)$vFiction.
700 1 $aTerry, Richard$q(Richard G.),$eeditor.
700 1 $aWilliams, Helen,$d1986-$eeditor.
830 0 $aBroadview editions.
852 00 $bglx$hPR3348.C65$iM52 2018