Nina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. Found inside – Page 193Expensive . Flowers - On the ground floor of three beautifully converted 18th - century courtesans ' houses , this restaurant is brightly decorated in pastel colors , and its walls are crammed with artwork . Traditional English food is the specialty . Most analyses of gender in High Qing times have focused on literature and on the writings of the elite; this book broadens the scope of inquiry to include women's work in the farm household, courtesan entertainment, and women's ... Found insideThis volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. Found inside – Page 104... how to entice and seduce men into all kinds of sexual perversities and unnatural vices . The prima donnas and lead women dancers were generally the most notorious courtesans . ” In the 18th century Paris became the “ Eldorado of theater ... Found inside – Page 63rGyud bZhi, A Reproduction of a sel of prints from the 18th century Zuri-cii ze Blocks from the Collections of Prof. Raghu Vira, by O-rgyan Namgyal (Leh: ... This volume illuminates the social and cultural landscape of eighteenth-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour. Sarah Dunant's epic novel of sixteenth-century Renaissance Italy is a story about the sins of pleasure and the pleasures of sin, an intoxicating mix of fact and fiction, and a dazzling portait of one of the worlds greatest cities at its ... Found inside – Page 132One was ' sweet Nelly O ' Brien , the most beautiful if not the most famous of all the courtesans of the 18th century ' . Walpole wrote that when Reynolds was painting a portrait of Lady Bolingbroke , Lord Bolingbroke said : ' You must give the ... Found inside – Page 6Culture and Society C. Andrew Gerstle ... houses, top-class courtesans (tayū), second-to-top courtesans (kóshi), courtesans' poetic names (genjina), ages, ... "Scandalous but True! The essays in this collection show a fascination with the social context behind the development of aesthetics, drama, language, art and philosophy, whether it be the world of the pleasure quarters or the Shogun's court. Found inside – Page 150Galliarum Regis , copiarurn Duo : Humanarum cultor litterarum litteratorum Moecenas , Qui genere , c forma , qira Musis ... 18th century . Civica Raccolta delle Stampe Achille Bertarelli , Milan Dan . Ant . Berleli da Felicolas Sartare fculpfat . Found inside – Page iThis book explores the intergenerational link, as well as relations between the sons, to find out how the conflicts faced by the parents may have been refigured in the novels of their sons. Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman’s heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. Found inside – Page 79For the 18th century, McKeown dismissed any influence on the death rate from smallpox inoculation or from the founding of ... Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. Found insideAnd will they be able to escape the legendary destructive power a mermaid is said to possess? ________________ PRAISE FOR THE MERMAID AND MRS HANCOCK: 'Full of rich detail' Stylist 'A gloriously assured debut, set in a beautifully drawn ... This book discusses sex and death in the eighteenth-century, an era that among other forms produced the Gothic novel, commencing the prolific examination of the century’s shifting attitudes toward death and uncovering literary moments in ... Found inside" This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; ... Found inside – Page 10010 Hierarchy of Lust in 17th - Century Japan Ivan Morris ) period 17th century ) provides a good example of the hierarchical nature of traditional Japanese society . ... The institution of yūjo ( girls of pleasure or courtesans ) was far more honest and unambiguous than that of the modern ... of these women who , together with kabuki actors , were the cynosure of fascination in 17th- and 18th - century Japan . In The Origins of Sex, Faramerz Dabhoiwala provides a landmark history, one that will revolutionize our understanding of the origins of sexuality in modern Western culture. This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Found inside – Page 110Moreover , a 17th century Viennese doctor , Johann Michael Haider ... noted in his Histoire de ma vie Giuseppe Maria Crespi , The courtesan , 18th century . The essays consider questions of slavery, gender, social networking, cultural production, sexuality, Islamic family law, and religion in the shaping of Near Eastern and Islamic society over time. Found insideAimed at anyone interested in gender, history of sexuality, sex, literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable collection of the work of a key scholar in the field. The sex industry was, in fact, a very powerful force indeed, and in The Secret History of Georgian London, Dan Cruickshank compellingly shows how it came to affect almost every aspect of life and culture in the capital. Found inside – Page 119So renowned were Venice's courtesans that they constituted something of a tourist attraction ... By the late 18th century, opera dancers and singers such as ... One of twenty ground-breaking titles that shaped the Headline list over twenty years Found inside – Page 84THE VISUAL TRADITION Late eighteenth - century English images of courtesans and actresses developed from a rich artistic tradition . Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much-envied achievement. In 'Courtesans' Katie Hickman, author of the bestselling 'Daughters of Britannia', focuses on the exceptional stories of five outstanding women. Found insideThis collection of essays focuses on the variety of ways that the sex trade was represented in popular culture of the time, across different art forms and highlighting contradictory interpretations. In this collection of essays, leading women's historians counter the notion of ‘national’ histories and provide the insight and perspective of a European approach. Found inside – Page 62Third in our series of art reproductions from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Hitomoto of Daimonji - ya ( A Courtesan ) , c . ... during the 18th century because it met the increasing demands of the patrons for souvenirs of their idols — courtesans ... Publisher description James Davidson masterfully unravels these strange anecdotes, casting new light not only on ancient pleasures but on the Ancient World as a whole. 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