A Burkean Analysis of the Sublimity and the Beauty of the Phallus in John Cleland’sFanny Hill

2016/07/02 by David McCracken · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Irish and British Studies #Literature: history, themes, analysis

paper · doi:10.1080/0895769x.2016.1216388

openalex publication_date 2016/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30

Abstract

In the tradition of the bildungsroman, the two volumes of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748–49) conveniently divide the main character’s sexual initiation into peri...

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