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Secret sexualities : a sourcebook of 17th and 18th century writing

Title: Secret sexualities : a sourcebook of 17th and 18th century writing / edited by Ian McCormick.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Additional Authors

McCormick, Ian, 1966-

Description

x, 262 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Secret Sexualities is expansive in its historical range, vast sources and scholarly research. It contains rare, unpublished, primary material, extensive critical and contextual material by the editor, and refuses to discriminate between issues of sex, sexuality and gender. The coverage includes: * extracts dealing with anatomy and medicine * the cultural construction of eunuchs and hermaphrodites * famous trials for sodomy and the forgotten victims of the law * representations of effeminate men, fops and sodomites * Sapphic texts which portray cross-dressing, mannish women and female husbands.

Subject

Genre/Form

English literature – 18th century.
English literature – Early modern, 1500-1700.
Gays' writings, English.
Literature.
Literary collections.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and index.

Contents

Degree and symptoms of venereal disease -- A treatise on hermaphrodites -- Eunuchism displayed -- The nature of hermaphrodites -- The fall and great vices of Sir Francis Bacon -- Mervin, Lord Audley, Earl of Castlehaven -- The case of John Atherton -- The trial and conviction of several reputed sodomites -- A notorious gang of sodomites -- The trial of Lord Duffus for sodomy -- Thomas Rodin, alias Reading, for attempting sodomy -- Trial of William Brown -- The trial of Mother Clap for keeping a sodomitical house -- The trial of Gabriel Lawrence for sodomy -- The trial of William Griffin for sodomy -- The trial of George Kedger for sodomy -- The trial of Thomas Wright for sodomy -- The trial of George Whittle for sodomy -- Proposals for castrating criminals -- A dissertation upon flogging -- Mr. Swinton accused of sodomitical practices -- The Wadhamites : a burlesque poem -- A court martial -- A king versus wiseman -- A full and genuine narrative of the confederacy -- The trial of Richard Branson -- Short extracts --
Sins of Sodom -- Mundus Foppensis -- The levellers -- The women-hater's lamentation -- The Mollies' club -- Sir Narcissus Foplin -- Reasons for the growth of sodomy -- A learned dissertation upon old women, male and female -- A genuine narrative -- Hell upon Earth -- Lord Hervey -- A view of the town -- The state of Rome under Nero and Domitian : a satire -- The pretty gentleman -- The young gentlemen -- The destruction of Sodom improved -- Love in the suds -- The Latin epitaph on Bob Jones -- The times -- The fruit shop -- The man-woman -- The womanish man -- A dialogue between Cleonarium and Leanena -- A serious proposal to the ladies -- Sappho -- Blest as the immortal gods is he -- The fable of Iphis and Ianthe -- Venus in the cloister; or, the nun in her smock -- Roxana -- Monsieur Thing's origin -- The unaccountable wife -- Letter from a young lady -- The toast -- Travels in Turkey -- The progressive nature -- A spy on Mother Midnight -- The history of the human heart -- Memoirs of a woman of pleasure -- Tonzenie -- Catherine Vizzani -- A discovery of a very extraordinary nature -- The adulteress.

ISBN

0415139538
9780415139533
0415139546
9780415139540
9780203360316
0203360311

LCCN

96016053

OCLC

ocm34623508
34623508
SCSB-2111150

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library