The US Supreme Court lifted the ban for obscenity charges in 1966. The work includes sexual descriptions from the point of view of a prostitute and parodies of contemporary literature in 1749, most notably, Moll Flanders. Students have the choice of writing a review, an analysis of a specific element of fiction or a biography of the author, John Cleland, and will participate in topic discussions on classroom message boards in this two-week seminar, L403 Banned Books - John Cleland Fanny Hill.