"The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art"

Title"The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art"
Year for Search1866
AuthorsBlanchard, Calvin(1808-1868)
Secondary TitleSecret History of a Votary of Pleasure. His Own Confessions
Pagination132-43
Date Published1866
PublisherCalvin Blanchard
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

While the book is presented as an autobiography, this section is a typical Blanchard eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864 1865, and 1866 Blanchard, “Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment!”

Additional Publishers

Also pub. bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867 but without separate publishing information.

Holding Institutions

AAS, PSt

Author Note

(1808-68)

Full Text

1866 Blanchard, Calvin (1808-68). “The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art.” Secret History of a Votary of Pleasure. His Own Confessions (New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1866), 132-43. Also pub. bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867 but without separate publishing information. AAS, PSt

While the book is presented as an autobiography, this section is a typical Blanchard eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864 1865, and 1866 Blanchard, “Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment!” Blanchard had a book store on Nassau Street in New York City which was noted for selling both radical and sexual publications. He was also a printer and publisher.