 | Infamous Commerce: Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Prostitution in literature; Prostitution -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Laura J. Rosenthal uses literary and historical sources to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century. Laura J. Rosenthal is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of Playwrights and Plagiarists in Early Modern England: Gender, Authorship, Literary Property and coeditor of Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Body, Self, and Other in the Enlightenment . |
