Pleasure Bound Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism

Name: Pleasure Bound Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
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ISBN: 9780393068320

ISBN-10: 0393068323

ISBN-13: 9780393068320

Edition: 2011

Authors: Deborah Lutz

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In 1860s London, two loosely overlapping groups of bohemians-the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes-challenged the buttoned-up Victorian propriety to promote erotic freedom and expression. Sensually attuned and politically radical, they were among the most influential thinkers and artists of the day, from Richard Burton to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. These iconoclasts not only navigated the fringes of sexual deviance with their bodies but also carried the pleasures of the body into their work, creating a taboo-loving counterculture whose reverberations can be felt today. In this stunning and nuanced exposeacute; of the Victorian London we thought we knew, Deborah Lutz takes us…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/14/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.20" wide x 8.60" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Deborah Lutz books include Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism and The Bronte Cabinet. A professor of English at Long Island University, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.



Ackowledgments


Introduction



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


Postscript


Notes


Credits


Index