John Cleland

Fanny Hill (Annotated) John Cleland

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-It is said that sex work is the oldest job in the world, whose prohibition is still being studied to this day from moral perspectives to feminists. Literature, ancient as sex work itself, served as a contribution to describe social phenomena from different points of view: scientific, analytical, literary, among others. On this last point, one of the novels that combines eroticism is developed to describe what was happening around who was engaged in sex work in the past. It's about Fanny Hill. Memories of a gallant woman (1748), written by John Cleland in a historical context where sexuality seen outside of reproduction had no place and, on the contrary, he refused pleasure -sexual- to the point of seeing it as something shameful, disgusting and out of human abilities, especially women, to feel it. Cleland tells the story of Fanny, a teenage girl who, losing her parents, wanders in search of an opportunity to stand out from the marginality she was in since she was born, without counting that it would take her to the world of "the gallant life" . Subsistence through sex work would allow him to discover not only a way to earn money, but to find something unknown until then.