- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions (May 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1170652069
- ISBN-13: 978-1170652060
- Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 24.6 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 712 g
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"Hal Gladfelder has done all those interested in eighteenth-century literature, and in the history of sexuality and gender, a great service with this unprecedented scholarly edition of Memoirs of a Coxcomb. The elegant critical introduction, judicious textual notes, and well-chosen appendices—both useful and diverting—make this an invaluable text." (Ann Louise Kibbie )
"This is an excellent edition of Cleland's intriguing Memoirs of a Coxcomb, a novel that offers a sort of masculine version of his more famous Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This book will add a new dimension to discussions of the novel, eighteenth-century culture, masculinity, and gender." (Laura Rosenthal ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
"This is an excellent edition of Cleland's intriguing Memoirs of a Coxcomb, a novel that offers a sort of masculine version of his more famous Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This book will add a new dimension to discussions of the novel, eighteenth-century culture, masculinity, and gender." (Laura Rosenthal ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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<sourceLibrary>British Library
<ESTCID>T057321
<Notes>Anonymous. By John Cleland.
<imprintFull>London : printed for R. Griffiths, 1751. <collation>[2],386p. ; 12°
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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<sourceLibrary>British Library
<ESTCID>T057321
<Notes>Anonymous. By John Cleland.
<imprintFull>London : printed for R. Griffiths, 1751. <collation>[2],386p. ; 12°
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Misbehavior, eighteenth-century style, Jun 20 2010
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This review is from: Memoirs of a Coxcomb (Paperback)
John Cleland is best know for his scandalous first novel, Memoirs of Fanny Hill, published in 1749 as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. This, his second novel (1751), is less well known.There's a similarity of narrative structure. Fanny Hill, of humble origin, falls into licentious behavior - and ultimately reforms. In Memoirs of a Coxcomb, young and rich Sir William Delamore indulges his "warm constitution" with numerous women - and ultimately reforms.
The admirable introduction explores the power struggles between men and women in this novel and is quite informative. But not being a scholar, I read the story less critically, perhaps more like an eighteenth-century reader.
I relished the social satire. For example, Sir William is quite entertaining as he describes the ritual among well-bred women of incessantly "visiting" each other while hoping to find no one "at home." His lively digressions on dissipated young lords, pompous political bores and the dullness of country life are equally amusing. I even enjoyed Sir William's unrealistic romantic obsession with the pure young woman he loved and lost without ever knowing her.
I have to confess I liked Sir William personally, despite his youthful absurdities, his lustful behavior and his vanity. After all, he was affectionate to his old aunt, he never indulged in gambling or drunkenness, and he avoided sleeping with prostitutes, considering them "unhappy victims of indigence."
Then there's the fun of Cleland's quaint prose. He describes erotic adventures in euphemistic metaphors - a nice change from the X-rated language in present-day film and fiction.
The moral aim of fiction was a great subject with eighteenth-century writers. In the interest of condemning human folly, an author could describe it in fascinating detail. Cleland's novel is an excellent example of this curious way of teaching young people a lesson.
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Not very well known, but pretty interesting!, Nov 9 2010
By SusanBAnthonie - Published on Amazon.com
Though not really Victorian this work has a definite place in English literature besides being highly entertaining. It is the suppressed sequel to the famous 'Fanny Hill', only this time the stories hero is male and must give ladies what they want...The author knew the social circles he describes well and this book can be seen as an accurate depiction of upper class England in the 18th century.
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Literature, April 28 2010
By B. Smith - Published on Amazon.com
Though not really Victorian this work has a definite place in English literature besides being highly entertaining. It is the suppressed sequel to the famous 'Fanny Hill', only this time the stories hero is male and must give ladies what they want...The author knew the social circles he describes well and this book can be seen as an accurate depiction of upper class England in the 18th century.
Also see the list 'Victorian Erotica'.
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