Merryland-1932-Thomas Stretzer-Robin Hood House- 18th century erotic fiction

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Merryland-1932-Thomas Stretzer-Robin Hood House- 18th century erotic fiction:
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MerrylandPublished by Robin Hood House, NY, 1932
Stretzer, Thomas
136PP 9 1/2 X 6 1/4
VERY GOODNO MARKS OR WRITINGBINDING TIGHTSLIGHT FADING TO SPINESEE PHOTOS
The Merryland books were a somewhat peculiar genre of English 17th and 18th century erotic fiction in which the female body was described in terms of a topographical metaphor derived from a pun on Maryland.[1] Four of the titles were published by 18th century controversialist Edmund Curll (c. 1675–1747).
Stretzer\'s book was typical of the genre in depicting the female body as a landscape that men explore, till, and plow. For example, he writes: \"Her valleys are like Eden, her hills like Lebanon, she is a paradise of pleasure and a garden of delight.\" Sometimes, the metaphor of female form equals landscape changes, but the objectification of the female body remains intact; only the image is changed, as when, for example, in another passage, the novel\'s narrator, Roger Pheuquewell, describes the uterus (\"Utrs,\" as the author simply contracts vowels without graphical indication) as resembling \"one of our common pint bottles, with the neck downwards.\" It is remarkable, he says, for expanding infinitely, the more it is filled, and contracting when there is no crop to hold. Similarly, in Charles Cotton\'s Erotopolis: The Present State of Bettyland, the female body is an island farmed by men.