Comprises a variety of topics, from prostitution to flatulence, and paints a picture of the real and imaginative worlds inhabited by the people of eighteenth-century Britain. This title features a volume dedicated to homosexuality. It is intended for students of eighteenth century culture, queer theory, history of sexuality and book history.
Acknowledgements, General Introduction, Introduction, Almonds for
Parrots: or, A Soft Answer to a Scurrilous Satyr, Calld, St. Jamess Park
(1708), The Benefit of Farting Explaind: or, The Fundament-All Cause of the
Distempers Incident to the Fair Sex, Inquird Into (1722), Arse Musica; or,
The Ladys Back Report to Don Fart-in-hand-o Puff-in dorst (1722), Monsieur
Things Origin (1722), Serious and Cleanly Meditations upon a House of Office
(1723), The Beaus Miscellany (1731), Spiritual Fornication. A Burlesque Poem
(1732), The Harlots Progress: or, The Humours of Drury-Lane (1732), Love in
All Its Shapes: or, The Way of a Man with a Woman (1734), Pretty Doings in a
Protestant Nation (1734), An Essay upon Improving and Adding, to the Strength
of Great-Britain and Ireland, by Fornication (1735), A Genuine Epistle
Written Some Time Since to the Late Famous Mother Lodge (1735), Notes to the
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