Sarah Green (University of Oxford)

Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

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Produktbeschreibung

Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores a surprisingly positive view of restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. It reads Decadent texts alongside medical manuals, periodicals, and adverts, finding representations of restraint as healthy, productive, and aesthetically enriching.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9781108831512
• ISBN-10: 1108831516
• Artikelnr.: 65599966

Inhaltsangabe

1. Loss and gain: the Victorian sexual body
2. 'A passionate coldness': Walter Pater
3. 'A holy indifference and tolerant favour': Lionel Johnson
4. 'An ascetic epicureanism': Vernon Lee
5. 'Men have died of love': George Moore.