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Key ideas from the book
- The narrative follows a prostitute’s rise to respectability.
- The novel brings together parody and sensual entertainment.
- Its treatment of sexuality draws on ideas associated with French libertine fiction.
- Its controversial reception is part of its significance in the history of English fiction.
- The work offers a point of interest for readers studying Enlightenment-era literature and thought.
About Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Completed in 1749, John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, tells the story of a prostitute’s rise to respectability. Its subject and frank approach made it a controversial work from the outset.
The novel combines parody and sensual entertainment with ideas about sexuality associated with French libertine fiction. Its reception and literary character place it within the history of eighteenth-century English fiction and the debates of the Enlightenment.
Readers interested in the history of erotic fiction, changing ideas about sexuality, or the literary controversies of the period may find it especially relevant.
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