Visitors to many ski areas this winter will find cleaner air and better views of mountain landscapes. Not only are ski resorts pushing legislation in Washington to combat global warming, at least 45 resorts in...

John Ruskin, the English art critic, never consummated his marriage because on his wedding night, he discovered with revulsion that his wife’s pubis did not present the smooth, polished surface of a Greek statue, but was instead covered with hair. Ho ho ho, we laugh,...

John Ruskin, the English art critic, never consummated his marriage because on his wedding night, he discovered with revulsion that his wife’s pubis did not present the smooth, polished surface of a Greek statue, but was instead covered with hair. Ho ho ho, we laugh,...

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 the social and ethical standards of mid-eighteenth-century England.

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.

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 popular in the eighteenth century.