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Terry Eagleton: ‘Fanny Hill’, 13 September 2012
Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland
by Hal Gladfelder.
Johns Hopkins, 311 pp., £28.50, July 2012,978 1 4214 0490 5 Show More
by Hal Gladfelder.
Johns Hopkins, 311 pp., £28.50, July 2012,
“... of one of the most salacious pieces of fiction in the English language; but it is no disrespect to Hal Gladfelder to wonder whether the Johns Hopkins press would have been quite so eager to take on an erudite study of an obscure 18th-century hack were he not renowned for having written an exceedingly dirty book. Most publishers run a mile these days from ... ”
