Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials
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- ISBN 9781032213705
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kathleen Lubey is Professor of English at St. John’s University, where she teaches courses on eighteenth-century literature, culture, sexuality, feminism, and race; queer studies, feminist theory, and the history of sexuality; and literary theory and research methods.
