Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685

By James Grantham Turner

Schooling Sex is the first full history of early modern libertine literature and its reception, from Aretino and Tullia d'Aragona in 16th-century Italy to Pepys, Rochester, and Behn in late 17th-century England. James Turner explores the idea of sexual education, from the simple instructional dialogue to the advanced experiments of the philosophical libertine, analyzing the hard-core curriculum that defined sexuality centuries before the Marquis de Sade.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199254265
• ISBN13: 9780199254262
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"