Robert P Maccubbin

'Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the Enlightenment Robert P Maccubbin

Marc Notes: English, with some essays translated from French or Italian. Review Quotes: "The work is well documented and indispensable for an understanding of the development of sexual, political and social attitudes and behavior during the enlightenment." The Eighteenth CenturyBrief Description: This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability. Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Robert P. Maccubbin; 2. 'The secrets of generation display'd': Aristotle's masterpiece in eighteenth-century England Roy Porter; 3. Sexual imagination as revealed in the Traite des superstitions of Abbe Jean-Baptiste Theirs Jean Marie Goulemot, translated by Odile Wagner and Arthur Greenspan; 4. Married but not churched: plebeian sexual relations and marital nonconformity in eighteenth-century Britain John R. Gillis; 5. Moral values in 'la suite de l'entretien' Theodore Tarczylo, translated by James Coke and Michael Murray; 6. Prostitution and reform in eighteenth-century England Vern L. Bullough; 7. The properties of libertinism James G. Turner; 8. Between the licit and the illicit: the sexuality of the king Jean-Pierre Guicciardi, translated by Michael Murray; 9. The sublimations of a fetishist: restif de la bretonne (1734 1806) David Coward; 10. Sodomitical subcultures, sodomitical roles, and the gender revolution of the eighteenth century: the recent historiography Randolph Trumbach; 11. The priest, the philosopher, and the homosexuality in enlightenment France Michael Delon, translated by Nelly Stephane; 12. The pursuit of homosexuality in the eighteenth century: 'utterly confused category' and/or rich repository? G. S. Rousseau; 13. Sodomy in the Dutch Depublic during the eighteenth century Arend H. Hudson, Jr.; 14. Parisian homosexuals create a lifestyle, 1700 50: the police archives Michel Rey, translated by Robert A. Day and Robert Welsh; 15. The censor censured: expurgating Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure Peter Sabor; 16. Chathonic and pelagic metaphorization in eighteenth-century English erotica Paul-Gabriel Bouce; 17. Modes of discourse and the language of sexual reference in eighteenth-century French fiction Robert J. Ellrich; 18. The Melange de poesies diverses (1781) and the diffusion of manuscript pornography in eighteenth-century France Robert L. Dawson; 19. Obscence literature in eighteenth-century Italy: an historical and bibliographical note Armando Marchi, translated by James Coke and David Marsh."

Contributor Bio:  Maccubbin, Robert P Maccubbin is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary.