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The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture by Mason

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Book Title
The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Cu
Publication Date
2008-08-01
Pages
192
ISBN
9780719077142

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Manchester University Press
ISBN-10
0719077141
ISBN-13
9780719077142
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66101693

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Secret Vice : Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture
Publication Year
2008
Subject
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Social History, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Type
Textbook
Author
Diane Mason
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
823.8093538
Table Of Content
Acknowledgement Introduction 1. 'It is more than blackguardly, it is deadly': masturbation in the male 2. 'A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing'?: female masturbation and its consequences 3. 'The languor which I had long felt began to display itself in my countenance': vampires, lesbians and masturbators 4. 'That mighty love which maddens one to crime': masturbation and same-sex desire in Teleny 5. 'His behaviour betrays the actual state of things': onanism and obsessive behaviour in Our mutual friend 6. 'Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face': conflicting signifiers of vice in The picture of Dorian Gray and The mystery of Edwin Drood Afterword Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American practitioners and demonstrates the influence and impact of these writings, not only on Victorian pornography but also in the creation of fictional characters by canonical authors such as Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde.The book also features the first detailed and balanced study of the largely overlooked literature on masturbation as it pertains to women in clinical and popular medical works aimed at the female reader. Mason concludes with a consideration of the way the distinctly Victorian discourse on masturbation has persisted into the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries with particular reference to Willy Russell's tragic-comic novel, The Wrong Boy (2000) and to the construction of 'Victorian Dad', a character featured in the adult comic, Viz. -- ., The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American practitioners and demonstrates the influence and impact of these writings, not only on Victorian pornography but also in the creation of fictional characters by canonical authors such as Bram Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The book also features the first detailed and balanced study of the largely overlooked literature on masturbation as it pertains to women in clinical and popular medical works aimed at the female reader. Mason concludes with a consideration of the way the distinctly Victorian discourse on masturbation has persisted into the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries with particular reference to Willy Russell's tragic-comic novel, The Wrong Boy (2000) and to the construction of 'Victorian Dad', a character featured in the adult comic, Viz., Provides a reading of both fictional and medical writings concerned with auto-erotic sexuality in the long nineteenth century. This book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by influential English, Continental and American practitioners such as J H Kellogg, E B Foote, Havelock Ellis, Krafft-Ebing and R V Pierce., It is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to women in clinical writing and the bestselling popular medical works aimed at the female reader
LC Classification Number
PR868.M378

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