Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and
gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts
and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in
historical context, Harvey provides a thoroughgoing critique of the
orthodoxy of work on sexual difference in the history of the body.
She argues that eighteenth-century English erotic culture combined
a distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the form of
refinement was applied to the matter of sex. Erotic culture was
male-centred and it was in this environment, Harvey argues, that
men could enjoy both the bawdy, raucous, libidinous elements of the
eighteenth century and the refined politeness for which the period
is also renowned. This book makes a significant contribution to the
history of masculinity and advocates an approach to change in
gender history, one capable of capturing the processes of
negotiation and contestation integral to cultural change.
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