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HC. 196pp ISBN 1550460862 very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations (illustratore).

411 pp.; 23.5 x 16 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Compendium of essays originally presented as part of a conference "The Invention of Pornography," held at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1991. Edited and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt. Essays by Paula Findlen, Joan DeJean, Rachel Weil, Margaret C. Jacob, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur, Kathryn Norberg, Randolph Trumbach, Wijnand W. Mijnhardt, and Lynn Hunt. Includes contributor biographies and index. "In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. The first modern writers and engravers of pornography were part of the demimonde of heretics, freethinkers and libertines who constituted the dark underside of the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. From the start, early modern European pornography used the shock of sex to test the boundaries and regulation of obscene behavior and expression in the public and private sphere. As such, pornography criticized and even subverted political authorities as well as social and sexual relations." -- publisher''s statement Fine. Covers and contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. 196pp/illus and fold-out map. The steamboat era in Maine's Calendar Island Region. Illustrated with well over 100 in text photographs and engravings of steamboats, their captains and crews, this history is supplemented by a bibliography several appendices, and fine fold-out chart of steamboat routes on the bay. Clean.…