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The topc of sexuality, erotica and pornography in general as well as their application in the text. Please also download my .pdf from Stud.IP
 
The topc of sexuality, erotica and pornography in general as well as their application in the text. Please also download my .pdf from Stud.IP

Revision as of 08:43, 19 January 2009

Richard Head’s (and Francis Kirkman’s) The English Rogue (1665-71) is an intriguing and multifaceted book. The first copies of the first volume were printed secretly, sold at alehouses and appreciated as grossly indecent. The license followed with the second edition in 1665. The book was successful, yet no work the author wanted to continue. The text had been interpreted, so Head felt, as autobiographical, his reputation had already suffered enough – which did not prevent his publisher, Francis Kirkman, from adding continuations till 1671. It has been said that Head was involved in the further production – he denied it.

The book had played with traditions, it was translated into a foreign language, German, and it inspired numerous imitations - yet it did not become “The first English Novel”; Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719) reached that fame in 1957. The discussion of predecessors has hardly rediscovered Head. We will ask why that is the case and try to explore the peculiar (more or less) fictional biography in attempts to contextualise it.

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Sebastian Brinkmann: The English Rogue & Sexuality

The topc of sexuality, erotica and pornography in general as well as their application in the text. Please also download my .pdf from Stud.IP

General Information

Topics

  • The history of editions
  • The French Rogue
  • The Spanish Rogue
  • Nationalism
  • Novel and Play
  • The Trivialisations
  • The question of authorship
  • The poor as the object of laughter?
  • Crime
  • Pornography?
  • Men and Women
  • The social bond
  • The German translation
  • An (Auto-)biography?
  • Stylistic improbabilities
  • An overview of research
  • Childhood
  • Truth, fiction and romance
  • The illustrations
  • Scatology
  • Religion
  • (Poetical) Justice
  • What the novel wants to teach us
  • Love
  • Colours, smells and touches
  • Age
  • Pity
  • Moments of reflection
  • Money
  • Punishments
  • Whoring
  • Poems and Prose
  • Included Letters
  • Cuckolding
  • Reputation
  • Masters and Servants
  • Professions
  • Gaming
  • The witty Extravagant

Links

Texts

  • [Richard Head] The English rogue described in the life of Meriton Latroon, a witty extravagant. London: Francis Kirkman, 1666. EEBO Anglistik Server Oldenburg
  • [A shortened chapbook version:] The life and death of the English rogue, or, His last legacy to the world. London, 1679. EEBO