Infamous commerce : prostitution in eighteenth-century British literature and culture /
Rosenthal, Laura J.(Laura Jean),1960-
Ithaca, N.Y. ; London : Cornell University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-263) and index.
A "cool state of indifference" : Mother Creswell's academy -- The "deluge of depravity" : Bernard Mandeville and the reform societies -- Whore, Turk, and Jew : Defoe's Roxana -- Fanny's sisters : the prostitute narrative -- Clarissa among the whores -- Tom Jones and the "new vice" -- Risky business in the South Seas and back.
English literature
Prostitution in literature.
Prostitution