Erotic historical literature

Description:But whatever term is used, it is unarguable that the long 18th century—roughly, the period from to —saw the emergence and consolidation of a canon of sexually explicit texts in Western Europe, and that this canon of erotic literature formed the basis for the proliferation of pornography in the 19th and 20th centuries. The same period is often seen as the era when certain essential features of modernity were consolidated: Just as literary critics have linked the development of the novel to these broader cultural changes, so might one think of erotic narratives of sexual education and danger as a vehicle that allowed authors and readers to imaginatively engage with new ways of feeling or thinking about sex and power, masculinity and femininity, privacy and public life. Both the canonical literature and the eroto-pornographic literature of the long 18th century concentrate on private experience and on sexuality as the secret, defining truth of the private self; indeed these two types or strains of literature are so intertwined that it is impossible to disentangle them.

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