Browse Hierarchy COM6218: Schools for Scandal: Sexual Fictions from The School of Venus to 50 Shades of Grey

This module explores a range of erotic, libertine and pornographic texts from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. It includes so-called 'whore dialogues' (The School of Venus), best-selling novels (Fanny Hill and 50 Shades of Grey), and influential works by the Marquis de Sade and Sacher-Masoch. You will examine the ways in which sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in different periods and cultures and explore past and present constructions of pornography and literature. Warning: this module contains sexually explicit material.