Pleasure bound : Victorian sex rebels and the new eroticism / Deborah Lutz.

Author/creator Lutz, Deborah
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©2011.
Description331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Subjects
Sex customs--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Artists--Sexual behavior. --Great Britain.
Great Britain--Social life and customs. --19th century.

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 panthers -- Collectors and pornographers -- The science of sex -- Burton's exotica -- Cabinets of curiosity.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010027029
ISBN0393068323 (hardcover)
ISBN9780393068320 (hardcover)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HQ18.G7 L88 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold