Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad

Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad

In a groundbreaking reappraisal of European history, award-winning historian Brian M. Watson gives the secret history of smut through the literature, art, photography, and historical figures you didnâ€™t learn about in school. Watson combs the bawdy and forgotten corners of Western civilization to reveal the hidden story of a topic that still causes anger, arousal, excitement and scandal. Combining an entertaining style with brand-new research, Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad explores not only the salacious history of pornography, but also explains the evolution of Western sexuality, the â€˜creationâ€™ of privacy (and public life), and the â€˜invention of manners.â€™ The book analyzes Western cultureâ€™s tortured and rapturous relationship with erotic representation by probing the underside of its culture, art, literature, philosophy, sexology, psychology and its law. Covering everything from the fifteenth century Renaissance all the way up to the twentieth century Playboy magazine, Watson takes the reader on a grand tour of the forgotten debauchery of Western history. Along the way, we meet a variety of colorful characters who rarely get their historical due: Lord Rochester, the royal Pimp; Pietro Aretino, the Renaissance godfather of pornography; Edmund Curll, the first Hugh Hefner; along with many other tax-dodging street pornographers and radicals who roamed the streets of London, Paris, New York, and other major metropoles. Watson takes us from the hallowed halls of the Council of Trent, where Popes and kings fought over the future of the west, to Grub Street, a narrow and disgusting London alley filled with hack writers, aspiring poets and pushers of dirty French pictures and many other sights and sounds from Western Civilizationâ€™s glorious and seedier locales. Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad reveals, for the first time, exactly how pornography went from being beautiful to being bad.
Country USA
Brand Smashwords
Manufacturer Smashwords
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber RKC2007339148
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781311042453
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Smashwords
Manufacturer	Smashwords
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	RKC2007339148
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781311042453
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad

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