Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic

我的项目将C17阅读作为一种性爱行为来探索，分析C17阅读的乐趣，并重新定义性和文本之间的关系。历史学家主要关注“积极的”学术阅读，将快乐放逐到研究的边缘。我的论文通过思考阅读的愉悦体验以及这种愉悦体验是如何体现出来的，重建了“愉悦读者”的身份。它探索了不那么公开的色情文本，挑战了霸权色情流派的概念，利用自传性和说教性的阅读描述、边缘部分和各种印刷文本，揭示了性和感官的早期现代阅读体验。

My project explores C17 reading as an erotic act, analysing C17 reading pleasures and redefining the relationship between sex and text. Historians largely focus on 'active' scholarly reading, banishing pleasure to the periphery of studies. My thesis reconstructs the identity of the 'pleasured reader' by considering the pleasurable experience of reading and how this was embodied. It explores less overtly-erotic texts and challenges notions of a hegemonic pornographic genre, drawing on autobiographical and didactic accounts of reading, marginalia and a variety of printed texts to uncover sexual and sensual early modern reading experiences.