Eighteenth-Century Private Life Writing as Evidence of Men’s Sexual Practices: Case Reopened
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It has been a common practice in scholarly literature on eighteenth-century sexuality to use private life writing as evidence of sexual behavior. The choice of texts in the examination of male nonmarital and extramarital sexual conduct has also been highly selective, favoring those who recorded such experiences over those who did not. These and related problems are addressed by way of a close reading of three published diaries that, thus far, have not been discussed in this context: the diaries of Thomas Turner (1729–1793), William Dyer (1730–1801), and Thomas Fenwick (1729–1794).