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<p>John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, <i>Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure,</i> or <i>Fanny Hill</i>, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known.</p> <p>In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England.</p> <p>Rather than a traditional biography, <i>Fanny Hill in Bombay</i> presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and f

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Author

Hal Gladfelder

Publisher

Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421404905

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24