{"product_id":"fanny-hill-in-bombay-hal-gladfelder-9781421404905","title":"Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making \u0026 Unmaking of John Cleland","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohn Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, \u003c\/i\u003e or \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill\u003c\/i\u003e, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland's tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than a traditional biography, \u003ci\u003eFanny Hill in Bombay\u003c\/i\u003e presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland's career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland's writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hal Gladfelder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421404907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421404905\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2012 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2012","brand":"Hal Gladfelder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44123504935167,"sku":"9781421404905","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e9ada62a-d060-4438-9dbd-738f11ae7641.jpg?v=1687431268","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fanny-hill-in-bombay-hal-gladfelder-9781421404905","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}