num_pages: 277
description: Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
language: English
title: Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
titlecomplete: Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England
genres: History, 18th Century, Nonfiction, 21st Century
ratings_count: 16
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan