When John Cleland published Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure in 1749, the critics immediately labeled it pornographic. This study is an attempt to eradicate this opinion. Fanny Hill is in reality structured in the didactic mode of the other major novels of the eighteenth century. Fanny Hill is a narrative about life in eighteenth-century England; it is about the same social and moral issues found in Clarissa, Moll Flanders, Tom Jones and other novels. But the morality of Fanny Hill was disguised in a lively sex story that dominated its major themes. / It was not until 1764 and the publication of Matthew G. Lewis' The Monk that another author used sex as John Cleland. The Monk was labeled a Gothic novel, but there are many parallels between it and Fanny Hill. This study, also, includes a discussion of the similarities of character and theme between Fanny Hill and The Monk. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0188. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75724 |
| Contributors | HOUSTON, JOANN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 110 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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