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Book SynopsisReconnecting 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.
Trade ReviewAn impressively learned, scrupulously detailed study. -- Terry Eagleton London Review of Books Cleland's life story is a puzzle with many pieces still missing. But Gladfelder's careful, painstaking reconstructions have brought the fascinating picture into much clearer focus. Choice Anyone interested in the history of pornography or Cleland cannot afford to be without this study of the writer and his work. -- Julie Peakman Times Literary Supplement Lucid and engaging. -- Paul Baines Review of English Studies Fanny Hill in Bombay will prove to be of essential reading to scholars of many kinds: of the novel; print culture; social; legal and colonial history; and translation. -- Gregory Lynall Women's History Review Intelligently conceived, intensely researched, gracefully articulated, Mr. Gladfelder's Fanny Hill in Bombay has 'made'... the 'literary career' of Cleland as a perversely exemplary 'miscellaneous writer' on the cusp of modernity. -- William H. Epstein The Scriblerian
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
John Cleland: A Chronology
1. Fanny Hill in Bombay (1728–1740)
2. Down and Out in Lisbon and London (1741–1748)
3. Sodomites (1748–1749)
4. Three Memoirs (1748–1752)
5. The Hack (1749–1759)
6. The Man of Feeling (1752–1768)
7. A Briton (1757–1787)
Epilogue: Afterlife
Appendix: Cleland's Mémoire to King João V of Portugal (1742)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
