The Making of Victorian Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780198122470 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 360 str.

Senior Lecturer in Engl Michael (Senior Lecturer in English

Opis

This study attempts to overturn the orthodox modern picture of prudery and puritanism during the Victorian era, and to present instead a Victorian sexual code which was intelligently embraced by wealthy and poor alike as part of a humane and progressive vision of society's future.

Recenzje

these two companion volumes by Michael Mason gather together a truly compendious amount of research to account for the emergence, formation, and dispersal of sexual respectability in Victorian society ... Mason can provide richly detailed and rewarding insights into some of the more obscure reaches of Victorian sexual life.

O autorze

Michael Mason has edited the Oxford Authors edition of William Blake (OPB, 1988), and is Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (Longman, 1992), and Trollope: Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews (Arno 1981). He lives in Oxford.