![]() ![]() The motif of the eroticized landscape and what one might call botanical or horticultural porn is particularly suggestive. Peakman also analyses various genre themes and their relationship to popular and scientific understandings of the body and reproductive physiology of the period. Peakman notes the connection between the production and marketing of risqué works and of informative manuals about sex which was to persist well into the twentieth century, as well as the persistent recycling and recirculation of material which became so characteristic. A number of persistent trends were already in place by the early eighteenth century. Although mechanisms by which obscene literature circulated through the provinces are mentioned, the concentration of the trade in London means that the metropolis forms the chief focus. It is particularly valuable to have the analysis of the production and distribution of obscene materials. This work significantly develops our understanding of obscene and erotic literature and its development as a genre during the eighteenth century in Britain. ![]()
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