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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Hardcover
EroticaGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515424314
Publisher: Black Curtain Pr
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is one of the most famous, controversial, and historically important erotic novels in English literature. Written as a candid first-person memoir, John Cleland's novel follows Frances Fanny Hill from youthful innocence into the sexual and social world of eighteenth-century London, where desire, survival, vulnerability, and economic necessity are closely intertwined. Its notoriety has often overshadowed its importance as a novel of manners, urban life, and female experience in a society where respectability, money, and pleasure were never far apart.
First published in 1748-1749, Fanny Hill became a landmark in the history of literary censorship. Its frank treatment of sexuality led to prosecution, suppression, and centuries of debate over obscenity, morality, and artistic freedom. Yet the novel endured because it is more than a scandalous book: it is a vivid document of eighteenth-century fiction, shaped by the language, social assumptions, comedy, and contradictions of its age.
For readers of classic erotic literature, banned books, eighteenth-century British fiction, and the history of censorship, Fanny Hill remains essential. Cleland's novel occupies a singular place between literary history and cultural controversy, offering a revealing portrait of pleasure, power, and reputation in the world of Georgian England.
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