A History Of Eroticism: Victorianism (Volume IV)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Behind the prim façade of Victorian respectability lay a world of hidden desires, clandestine publications, and cultural contradictions that A History of Eroticism: Victorianism boldly brings to light. Danish authors Ove Brusendorff and Poul Henningsen chronicle the paradoxical era of Queen Victoria's reign — an age that simultaneously produced some of history's most repressive moral codes and its most elaborate underground erotic culture — tracing the social, artistic, and literary currents that shaped attitudes toward sexuality in the 19th century. This fourth volume in the landmark series presents a rigorous yet accessible survey of Victorian erotic expression, from clandestine literature and private collections to the broader cultural anxieties that drove intimacy underground. Brusendorff and Henningsen argue with compelling authority that repression and obsession are two sides of the same coin, illuminating how the era's strict taboos paradoxically fuelled an explosion of erotic creativity. A work of genuine historical and sociological weight, it leaves the reader questioning just how much of the Victorian in us has truly disappeared.
Author: Ove Brusendorff & Poul Henningsen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Lyle Stuart, Inc.
Genre: History
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Behind the prim façade of Victorian respectability lay a world of hidden desires, clandestine publications, and cultural contradictions that A History of Eroticism: Victorianism boldly brings to light. Danish authors Ove Brusendorff and Poul Henningsen chronicle the paradoxical era of Queen Victoria's reign — an age that simultaneously produced some of history's most repressive moral codes and its most elaborate underground erotic culture — tracing the social, artistic, and literary currents that shaped attitudes toward sexuality in the 19th century. This fourth volume in the landmark series presents a rigorous yet accessible survey of Victorian erotic expression, from clandestine literature and private collections to the broader cultural anxieties that drove intimacy underground. Brusendorff and Henningsen argue with compelling authority that repression and obsession are two sides of the same coin, illuminating how the era's strict taboos paradoxically fuelled an explosion of erotic creativity. A work of genuine historical and sociological weight, it leaves the reader questioning just how much of the Victorian in us has truly disappeared.