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Infamous commerce : prostitution in eighteenth-century British literature and culture
Title
Infamous commerce : prostitution in eighteenth-century British literature and culture / Laura J. Rosenthal.
ISBN
0801444047 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
x, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 20, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-263) and index.
Contents
A "cool state of indifference" : Mother Creswell's academy
The "deluge of depravity" : Bernard Mandeville and the reform societies
Whore, Turk, and Jew : Defoe's Roxana
Fanny's sisters : the prostitute narrative
Clarissa among the whores
Tom Jones and the "new vice"
Risky business in the South Seas and back.
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