How Long to Read Fanny Hill in Bombay

How Long Does it Take to Read Fanny Hill in Bombay?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 36 minutes to read Fanny Hill in Bombay by Hal Gladfelder

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

John Cleland is among the most scandalous figures in British literary history, both celebrated and attacked as a pioneer of pornographic writing in English. His first novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill, is one of the enduring literary creations of the eighteenth century, despite over two hundred years of legal prohibition. Yet the full range of his work is still too little known. In this study, Hal Gladfelder combines groundbreaking archival research into Cleland’s tumultuous life with incisive readings of his sometimes extravagant, sometimes perverse body of work, positioning him as a central figure in the development of the novel and in the construction of modern notions of authorial and sexual identity in eighteenth-century England. Rather than a traditional biography, Fanny Hill in Bombay presents a case history of a renegade authorial persona, based on published works, letters, private notes, and newly discovered legal testimony. It retraces Cleland’s career from his years as a young colonial striver with the East India Company in Bombay through periods of imprisonment for debt and of estrangement from collaborators and family, shedding light on his paradoxical status as literary insider and social outcast. As novelist, critic, journalist, and translator, Cleland engaged with the most challenging intellectual currents of his era yet at the same time was vilified as a pornographer, atheist, and sodomite. Reconnecting Cleland’s writing to its literary and social milieu, this study offers new insights into the history of authorship and the literary marketplace and contributes to contemporary debates on pornography, censorship, the history of sexuality, and the contested role of literature in eighteenth-century culture.

How long is Fanny Hill in Bombay?

Fanny Hill in Bombay by Hal Gladfelder is 327 pages long, and a total of 84,039 words.

This makes it 110% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Fanny Hill in Bombay Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 39 minutes to read Fanny Hill in Bombay aloud.

What Reading Level is Fanny Hill in Bombay?

Fanny Hill in Bombay is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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