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Pleasure bound : Victorian sex rebels and the new eroticism

Title
Pleasure bound : Victorian sex rebels and the new eroticism / Deborah Lutz.
Author
Lutz, Deborah.
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2011.

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Description
331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
Describes two groups of iconoclastic bohemians, the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes, who created a taboo-loving counterculture of sexual deviance and pleasure that ran below the surface of stuffy Victorian London.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Sex customs > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Artists > Sexual behavior > Great Britain
  • Sexual Behavior > history
  • Sex > history
  • Family and Relationships
  • Manners and customs
  • Sex customs
  • Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pleasures taken -- Erotic melancholia -- Erotic faith -- The seductress and the bluestocking -- Men together -- The grove of the evangelist -- Cannibals and other lovers of men -- Feasting with panther -- Collectors and pornographers -- The science of sex -- Burton's exotica -- Cabinets of curiosity.
ISBN
  • 0393068323
  • 9780393068320
LCCN
2010027029
OCLC
  • ocn601106342
  • 601106342
  • SCSB-14692330
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library