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 recent 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 with the refined politeness for which the
period is also renowned. This book makes a significant contribution
to the history of masculinity and advocates a new approach to
change in gender history, one capable of capturing the processes of
negotiation and contestation integral to cultural change.
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