ABSTRACT
This article focuses on how linguistic devices such as dysphemism and euphemism can help us understand the registers of the erotic and the pornographic. By identifying them in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Spanish poetry, especially in the underground poetry written by the main authors of the Spanish Enlightenment: Nicolás Fernández de Moratín, his son Leandro, Tomás de Iriarte, and Juan Meléndez Valdés, this chapter aims to shed light on the representational dynamics of both pornography and erotica.
