The Cambridge Companion to Erotic Literature

Bradford K. Mudge is the author of Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter (1989) and The Whore's Story: Women, Pornography, and the British Novel, 1684-1830 (2000); and the editor of British Romantic Novelists, 1789-1832 (1992) and When Flesh Becomes Word: An Anthology of Early Eighteenth-Century Libertine Literature (2004). In addition, he has published numerous essays on eighteenth-century English art and literature.

• 1. Eros and Literature Bradford K. Mudge; 2. Classical Antiquity and Modern Erotic Literature Daniel Orrells; 3. Performances of Suffering: Secular and Devotional Eros in Late Medieval Writing Sarah Salih; 4. Can a Woman Rape a Man?: Rape and the Erotic in Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis Elizabeth Robertson; 5. The Manuscript Circulation of Erotic Poetry in Early Modern England Ian Moulton; 6. The Erotic Renaissance James Grantham Turner; 7. Pornography, Procreation and Pleasure in Early Modern England Sarah Toulalan; 8. Novel Pleasure Bradford K. Mudge; 9. Erotic for Whom?: When Particular Bodies Matter to Romantic Sexuality Richard Sha; 10. Emily Dickinson in Love (With Death) Marianne Noble; 11. Erotic Bonds Among Women in Victorian Literature Deborah Lutz; 12. Guillaume Apollinaire, the Enfer Collection, and Modernist Eroto-Bibliography Collette Colligan; 13. Sade, Reage, and Transcending the Obscene Amy Wyngaard; 14. 'Nothing could stop it now!': Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer, and the Intersections of Desire David Greven; 15. Dutch Gay Novels of the 1960s and 1970s Gert Hekma.