Fanny Hill in Bombay The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland

• Main Author: Gladfelder, Hal (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2012
• Subjects: Biography: literary
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite ov...