Beyond Victims & Villains: Teaching Cleland With Haywood & Behn

Abstract

This essay explores strategies for teaching Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) in the introductory literature classroom, and why it might be especially valuable to do so at a time when issues surrounding sexual violence, rape culture, and the politics of consent continue to be prominent inside and outside the college classroom.

Keywords

• john cleland
• eliza haywood
• aphra behn
• teaching
• pedagogy
• feminist
• sexuality
• theory
• #metoo