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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-ninth episode (nice) we recap the first (?) known pornographic work to use the novel as its form: John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748). We see a weaponised Measuringworth and learn the joys of giant maypoles, turtlebilling, and plenipontentary instruments.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: John Gay, 'Overture' in The Beggar's Opera (1728).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
By Abigail Boucher and Daniel Jenkin-Smith4.8
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Two friends and academics recap classic literature and take it off its pedestal. This season, we are only looking at banned and controversial texts. In our sixty-ninth episode (nice) we recap the first (?) known pornographic work to use the novel as its form: John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748). We see a weaponised Measuringworth and learn the joys of giant maypoles, turtlebilling, and plenipontentary instruments.
Cover art © Catherine Wu.
Episode Theme: John Gay, 'Overture' in The Beggar's Opera (1728).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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