Kathleen Lubey

What Pornography Knows offers a new history of pornography based on forgotten bawdy fiction of the eighteenth century, its nineteenth-century republication, and its appearance in 1960s paperbacks. Through close textual study, Lubey shows how these texts were edited across time to become what we think pornography is-a genre focused primarily on sex. Originally, they were far more variable, joining speculative philosophy and feminist theory to sexual...