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This is the first volume of a comprehensive study of the
erotic impulse in the literature of all ages. John Atkins, whose
scholarship is already well known to readers of his remarkable studies of
George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Graham Greene, has written an account in
depth of the treatment of sex in literature ranging from the erotic
classics of the Ancients, through the little known works of Persian
antiquity, analysing the amatory sonnets of the Restoration, and finally
bringing this survey up to the present with the erotology of the twentieth
century. Mr Atkins deals critically and amusingly with the changes both in
writing styles--the veiled suggestions of he Bowdler era against the
sensuous imagery of the East--and the climates to which these classics
belong. John Atkins' light-hearted erudition makes Sex in Literature an
immensely readable study of man's most universal preoccupation.
erotic impulse in the literature of all ages. John Atkins, whose
scholarship is already well known to readers of his remarkable studies of
George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and Graham Greene, has written an account in
depth of the treatment of sex in literature ranging from the erotic
classics of the Ancients, through the little known works of Persian
antiquity, analysing the amatory sonnets of the Restoration, and finally
bringing this survey up to the present with the erotology of the twentieth
century. Mr Atkins deals critically and amusingly with the changes both in
writing styles--the veiled suggestions of he Bowdler era against the
sensuous imagery of the East--and the climates to which these classics
belong. John Atkins' light-hearted erudition makes Sex in Literature an
immensely readable study of man's most universal preoccupation.
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- PublisherCalder & Boyars
- Publication date1970
- ISBN 10 0714505226
- ISBN 13 9780714505220
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages380
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