Invention of Pornography Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800

"As the essays in The Invention of Pornography suggest, pornography is the name given to a particular cultural battle zone that first became identifiable during the rise of elected governments....The rise of pornography as a subgenre parallelled the movements of Western modernity--the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution--that ultimately fueled the growth of democracy."Hunt, Lynn is the author of 'Invention of Pornography Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800' with ISBN 9780942299694 and ISBN 0942299698.