Hal Gladfelder is a senior lecturer of English and American studies at the University of Manchester, editor of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb, and author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law, also published by Johns Hopkins.

An impressively learned, scrupulously detailed study. -- Terry Eagleton London Review of Books Cleland's life story is a puzzle with many pieces still missing. But Gladfelder's careful, painstaking reconstructions have brought the fascinating picture into much clearer focus. Choice Anyone interested in the history of pornography or Cleland cannot afford to be without this study of the writer and his work. -- Julie Peakman Times Literary Supplement Lucid and engaging. -- Paul Baines Review of English Studies Fanny Hill in Bombay will prove to be of essential reading to scholars of many kinds: of the novel; print culture; social; legal and colonial history; and translation. -- Gregory Lynall Women's History Review Intelligently conceived, intensely researched, gracefully articulated, Mr. Gladfelder's Fanny Hill in Bombay has 'made'... the 'literary career' of Cleland as a perversely exemplary 'miscellaneous writer' on the cusp of modernity. -- William H. Epstein The Scriblerian

• AcknowledgmentsJohn Cleland: A Chronology1. Fanny Hill in Bombay (1728–1740)2. Down and Out in Lisbon and London (1741–1748)3. Sodomites (1748–1749)4. Three Memoirs (1748–1752)5. The Hack (1749–1759)6. The Man of Feeling (1752–1768)7. A Briton (1757–1787)Epilogue: AfterlifeAppendix: Cleland's Mémoire to King João V of Portugal (1742)NotesBibliographyIndex

Hal Gladfelder is a senior lecturer of English and American studies at the University of Manchester, editor of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb, and author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law, also published by Johns Hopkins.

An impressively learned, scrupulously detailed study. -- Terry Eagleton London Review of Books Cleland's life story is a puzzle with many pieces still missing. But Gladfelder's careful, painstaking reconstructions have brought the fascinating picture into much clearer focus. Choice Anyone interested in the history of pornography or Cleland cannot afford to be without this study of the writer and his work. -- Julie Peakman Times Literary Supplement Lucid and engaging. -- Paul Baines Review of English Studies Fanny Hill in Bombay will prove to be of essential reading to scholars of many kinds: of the novel; print culture; social; legal and colonial history; and translation. -- Gregory Lynall Women's History Review Intelligently conceived, intensely researched, gracefully articulated, Mr. Gladfelder's Fanny Hill in Bombay has 'made'... the 'literary career' of Cleland as a perversely exemplary 'miscellaneous writer' on the cusp of modernity. -- William H. Epstein The Scriblerian

• AcknowledgmentsJohn Cleland: A Chronology1. Fanny Hill in Bombay (1728–1740)2. Down and Out in Lisbon and London (1741–1748)3. Sodomites (1748–1749)4. Three Memoirs (1748–1752)5. The Hack (1749–1759)6. The Man of Feeling (1752–1768)7. A Briton (1757–1787)Epilogue: AfterlifeAppendix: Cleland's Mémoire to King João V of Portugal (1742)NotesBibliographyIndex

Hal Gladfelder is a senior lecturer of English and American studies at the University of Manchester, editor of John Cleland's Memoirs of a Coxcomb, and author of Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England: Beyond the Law, also published by Johns Hopkins.

An impressively learned, scrupulously detailed study. -- Terry Eagleton London Review of Books Cleland's life story is a puzzle with many pieces still missing. But Gladfelder's careful, painstaking reconstructions have brought the fascinating picture into much clearer focus. Choice Anyone interested in the history of pornography or Cleland cannot afford to be without this study of the writer and his work. -- Julie Peakman Times Literary Supplement Lucid and engaging. -- Paul Baines Review of English Studies Fanny Hill in Bombay will prove to be of essential reading to scholars of many kinds: of the novel; print culture; social; legal and colonial history; and translation. -- Gregory Lynall Women's History Review Intelligently conceived, intensely researched, gracefully articulated, Mr. Gladfelder's Fanny Hill in Bombay has 'made'... the 'literary career' of Cleland as a perversely exemplary 'miscellaneous writer' on the cusp of modernity. -- William H. Epstein The Scriblerian

• AcknowledgmentsJohn Cleland: A Chronology1. Fanny Hill in Bombay (1728–1740)2. Down and Out in Lisbon and London (1741–1748)3. Sodomites (1748–1749)4. Three Memoirs (1748–1752)5. The Hack (1749–1759)6. The Man of Feeling (1752–1768)7. A Briton (1757–1787)Epilogue: AfterlifeAppendix: Cleland's Mémoire to King João V of Portugal (1742)NotesBibliographyIndex