Erotic literature
Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar feelings in readers.[1] This contrasts erotica, which focuses more specifically on sexual feelings. Other common elements are satire and social criticism. Much erotic literature features erotic art, illustrating the text.
Although cultural disapproval of erotic literature has always existed, its circulation was not seen as a major problem before the invention of printing, as the costs of producing individual manuscripts limited distribution to a very small group of wealthy and literate readers. The invention of printing, in the 15th century, brought with it both a greater market and increasing restrictions, including censorship and legal restraints on publication on the grounds of obscenity.[2] Because of this, much of the production of this type of material became clandestine.[3]
Brulotte, Gaëtan & Phillips, John (eds.) (2006) Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature. New York: Routledge
Gibson, Ian (2001) The Erotomaniac London: Faber & Faber
H. Montgomery Hyde (1964) A History of Pornography. London: Heinemann
(1959) Pornography and the Law, The Psychology of Erotic Realism and Pornography. New York: Ballantine Books
Kronhausen, Phyllis & Eberhard
(1969) Erotic Fantasies, a Study of Sexual Imagination. New York: Grove Press
Kronhausen, Phyllis & Eberhard
Muchembled, Robert (2008) Orgasm and the West: a history of pleasure from the 16th century to the present, , ISBN 0-7456-3876-7
Polity
(1969). The Pornographic Imagination in Styles of Radical Will. Picador. ISBN 0-312-42021-8.
Sontag, Susan
Weller, Michael J. The Secret Blue Book. Home Baked Books,, London.
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(1999) Hardcore: Power, Pleasure, and the 'Frenzy of the Visible'. Berkeley: University of California Press
Williams, Linda
Kearney, Patrick, ed. (1981). The Private Case: an annotated bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library. London Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: J. Landesman Distributed by Humanities Press. 9780905150246. With an introduction by G. Legman.
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Pietrek, Klaus (1992). Lexikon der erotischen Literatur: Autoren, Werke, Themen, Aspekte (in German). Meitingen: Corian-Verl. 9783890480503.
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Bondy, François (1989), "Erotische literatur", in Bondy, François (ed.), Harenbergs Lexikon der Weltliteratur: Autoren – Werke – Begriffe (Band 2) (in German), Dortmund: Harenberg-Lexikon-Verl, 9783611000911.
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Schweikle, Günther; Schweikle, Irmgard (1990), "Erotische literatur", in Schweikle, Günther; Schweikle, Irmgard (eds.), Metzler Literatur Lexikon: Begriffe und Definitionen (in German), vol. 2, Stuttgart: J.M. Metzlersche, 9783476006684.
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von Wilpert, Gero (2001), "Erotische literatur", in von Wilpert, Gero (ed.), (in German), vol. 8, Stuttgart: Kröner, ISBN 9783520231086
Sachwörterbuch der Literatur
Hogen, Hildegard; Bode, Eva Beate (2004), "Erotische literatur", in Hogen, Hildegard; Bode, Eva Beate (eds.), Der Brockhaus Literatur: Schriftsteller, Werke, Epochen, Sachbegriffe (in German), vol. 2, Mannheim: F.A. Brockhaus, 9783765303517
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Brulotte, Gaétan; Phillips, John, eds. (2006). Encyclopedia of erotic literature. New York: Routledge. 9781579584412.
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Roy, Pinaki (January 2014). (PDF). Labyrinth. 5 (1). Gwalior, India: Dr. Lata Mishra: 68–77. ISSN 0976-0814. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 8, 2016.
"Reviewing Steamies: the literary steam of twenty-first century feminism"
Straight, Sheryl. . A Bibliography of Works Published by Charles Carrington
"The erotica bibliophile"
Wood, Rachel (July 2015). (PDF). Porn Studies. 2 (2–3). Taylor and Francis: 250–262. doi:10.1080/23268743.2015.1051308. hdl:10034/621054. S2CID 143264651.