Fanny Hill In Bombay
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Fanny Hill In Bombay
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Author : Hal Gladfelder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
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John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known.In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland's tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England.Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland's career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast.As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland's writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.
Fanny Hill In Bombay
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Author : Hal Gladfelder
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-03-23
Fanny Hill In Bombay written by Hal Gladfelder and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A study of the life and work of the notorious English novelist. John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England. Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast. As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland’s writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture. “Cleland’s life story is a puzzle with many pieces still missing. But Gladfelder’s careful, painstaking reconstructions have brought the fascinating picture into much clearer focus.” —Choice “Anyone interested in the history of pornography or Cleland cannot afford to be without this study of the writer and his work.” —Julie Peakman, Times Literary Supplement (UK) “Innovative, adventurous, and exciting. Gladfelder has given us a new and, for eighteenth-century studies, a newly significant and central John Cleland—a writer whose notoriety as author of the first pornographic novel in English has until now overshadowed a long, varied, and remarkable career as colonial administrator, projector, jailbird, bookseller’s hack, alleged sodomite, translator, reviewer, philologist, and author of numerous original works beyond the Memoirs. . . . An exemplary—an unusual and immensely enabling—combination of painstaking archival and other historical research and analytic, expository flair. The scholarship is formidable throughout.” —Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto
Fanny Hill In Bombay
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Author : Hal Gladfelder
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-04-16
Fanny Hill In Bombay written by Hal Gladfelder and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England. Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast. As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland’s writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill
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Author : In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill written by In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with Fiction categories.
Reprinted from a privately printed limited edition based on the original unexpurgated text of 1749.
Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure
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Author : John Cleland
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2004-07-29
Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure written by John Cleland and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-29 with Fiction categories.
Forced by the death of her parents to seek her fortune in London, Fanny Hill is duped into prostitution by an old procuress. In Mrs Brown's bawdy-house the naïve young woman begins her sexual initiation - progressing from innocence to curiosity and desire - and soon embarks on her own path in pursuit of pleasure, until she at last finds true love. John Cleland's story of Fanny's rise to respectability was denounced after its publication by the then Bishop of London as 'an open insult upon Religion and good manners', while James Boswell called it 'a most licentious and inflaming book'. But beside its highly entertaining and boisterous depictions of a startling variety of sexual acts, Fanny Hill stands as one of the great works of eighteenth-century fiction for its unique combination of parody, erotica and philosophy of sensuality.
The Memoirs Of Fanny Hill
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Author : John Cleland
language : en
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Release Date : 2021-11-15
The Memoirs Of Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and has been published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-15 with Fiction categories.
The Memoirs of Fanny Hill John Cleland - The Memoirs of Fanny Hill by John Cleland was originally published in 1748. It is an erotic novel, and is considered the first pornographic novel to be published. It is written in the form of two long letters by Frances 'Fanny' Hill, to a woman known only as 'Madam'. Whilst Frances is now married with children and living a happy and luxurious existence, the letters recount the earlier, more scandalous stages of her life. Starting with a poor childhood, the letters tell of how, after her parents died, she went to London and ended up working in a brothel. There she meets her current husband Charles, who encouraged her to leave this lifestyle - after becoming lovers, Charles was sent away overseas for a while during which time Frances went on to have several lovers. Eventually they reunite.A year after the first installment had been published, Cleland and his publisher were arrested and charged with 'corrupting the King's subjects'. Interestingly enough, Cleland had finished The Memoirs of Fanny Hill whilst in prison for debt. When the case of corruption went to court, Cleland renounced the book, claiming that he could only 'wish from his soul that the book be buried and forgot'.
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill
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Author : In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-11-09
Memoirs Of Fanny Hill written by In Charge of the Dynamic Data Base John Cleland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-09 with categories.
Fanny Hill is the book of immorality rewarded. Letters of Fanny Hill, despite their extreme licentiousness, are a series of prints which, like the compositions of William Hogarth, paint a perfect picture of English manners of the eighteenth century. Life is present with an undeniable truth accent. The London of that time offered the amateur women all the resources he could desire: more villainous taverns to the most sumptuous "harems." In a preface to the Memoirs of Fanny Hill (1914 edition), Guillaume Apollinaire says it is "the English sister Manon Lescaut, but less unhappy." To the difference of Manon Lescaut, there is little complicity between Cleland and his heroine. However, this careful chronic illuminates the century and amusements of a light-hitting. John Cleland was born in 1709 into a middle-class military family. He was British consul in Smyrna he left in 1736 to enter the service of the East India Company in Bombay. He published without the author's name, an edition of Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure written by herself (Memoirs of a prostitute), one of the great classics of erotic literature in London in 1748- 1749 while he was imprisoned for debt in Fleet prison. When he dies, it is a very old writer considered. But we continued to read Fanny Hill under the coat
Fanny Hill
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Author : John Cleland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-11-11
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, popularly known as Fanny Hill, is a novel by John Cleland. Written in 1748 while Cleland was in debtor's prison in London, it is considered the first modern "erotic novel" in English, and has become a byword for the battle of censorship of erotica.John Cleland (1709 - 1789) was an English novelist, most famous-and infamous-as the author of the erotic novel Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant; he was also a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed good finances and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London.Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for financial reasons, but whatever misbehavior or allegation had led to his departure is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Cleland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whatever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving school. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He returned to London when recalled by his dying father. Upon William's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John. John Cleland (1709 - 1789) was an English novelist, most famous-and infamous-as the author of the erotic novel Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.He was born in Kingston upon Thames in Surrey but grew up in London, where his father was first an officer in the British Army and then a civil servant; he was also a friend to Alexander Pope, and Lucy Cleland was a friend or acquaintance of both Pope, Viscount Bolingbroke, Chesterfield, and Horace Walpole. The family possessed good finances and moved among the finest literary and artistic circles of London.Cleland entered Westminster School in 1721, but he left or was expelled in 1723. His departure was not for financial reasons, but whatever misbehavior or allegation had led to his departure is unknown. Historian J. H. Plumb speculates that Cleland's puckish and quarrelsome nature was to blame, but, whatever caused Cleland to leave, he entered the British East India Company after leaving school. He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740. He returned to London when recalled by his dying father. Upon William's death, the estate went to Lucy for administration. She, in turn, did not choose to support John.
Fanny Hill
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Author : John Cleland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with Fiction categories.
John Cleland's sexy classic -- available now after centuries under ban. Delightful, steamy, and enduring. (Jacketless library hardcover.)
Fanny Hill
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Author : John Cleland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-08-02
Fanny Hill written by John Cleland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with categories.
Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, has been a notorious novel since it first appeared in London in 1748-9. Banned for its "obscene" content, this fictional account of a young woman's unconventional route to middle-class respectability is a lively and engaging tale of a heroine who falls into prostitution, passes through the boudoirs and brothels of England, and eventually rises to respectability. Fanny Hill's story offers modern readers sensuality and substance, as well as an unusually frank depiction of love and sex in the eighteenth century.