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In the following essay, Hollander asserts that Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure or Fanny Hill observes the conventions necessary to a successful pornographic work and presents an appealing, literary evo...
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In the following essay, Slepian and Morrissey defend Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure as a work of literature, arguing that as such, it is a novel of education and intentionally comic.
It is not surpris...
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In the following essay, Kramer argues that, contrary to the view of its supporters, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) does not meet literary criteria but is instead mere pornography born of ...
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In the following essay, Taube compares Cleland's whore biography with Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, considering Cleland's novel more successful as pornography because it is less e...
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In the following essay, Braudy suggests that Cleland's Fanny Hill was influenced by the materialism that was part of the most advanced philosophic thought of Cleland's time.
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In the following essay, Bradbury argues that as an example of the era's experimentation in novelistic form, Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure may not be exceptionally good, but it...
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In the following essay, Copeland identifies and discusses the similarities between the metaphors used for descriptions of vice in Fanny Hill and for virtue in Clarissa.
A comparison of John Cleland&#x...
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In the following excerpt, Epstein discusses the possible sources for the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, including both classical and contemporary texts as well as Cleland's own experience with...
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In the following excerpt, Miller argues that Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) can be interpreted as a female Bildungsroman in the tradition of other apprenticeship or coming-of-age novels p...
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Critical Essay by John Hollander
