Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials by Lubey, Kathleen;

Short description:

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.

Long description:

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.

Table of Contents:

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 Constable?s 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 King?s 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 Dugdale?s suit against the Society for the Suppression of Vice], Reynolds?s 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 Englishwoman?s Domestic Magazine on the Whipping of Girls, and the General Corporal Punishment of Children?, Supplemental Conversazione of the Englishwoman?s 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 Faceti?, 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 Cardinal?s 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 Lady?s 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