Fashionable Lectures: Composed and Delivered with Birch Discipline (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

Fashionable Lectures is a remarkable late eighteenth-century collection of fictional anecdotes on the subject of sexual flagellation. Anecdotes are written in dialogue and monologue form and focus on birching in aristocratic domestic contexts. Fashionable Lectures is significant because it foregrounds the theatrical staging of consensual whipping in scripted ‘lectures.’ Probably written and first published in the late 1770s, Fashionable Lectures was reprinted by John Camden Hotten in 1872 as the last book in a seven volume set on the topic of flogging. The other books in this series are: Exhibition of Female Flagellants, Part the Second of the Exhibition of Female Flagellants, Lady Bumtickler’s Revels, A Treatise of the Use of Flogging in Venereal Affairs, Madame Birchini’s Dance, and Sublime of Flagellation. This series was published with the facetious title ‘Library Illustrative of Social Progress.’