The Dark Angel: Aspects Of Victorian Sexuality
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
Beneath the polished veneer of Victorian respectability lay a world of secrets, contradictions, and suppressed desire. Fraser Harrison's The Dark Angel: Aspects of Victorian Sexuality dismantles the myth of the prim and proper Victorian age, uncovering the complex and often hypocritical attitudes toward sex, gender, and morality that defined nineteenth-century British society. Drawing on a rich tapestry of primary sources — from medical texts and legal records to literature and private correspondence — Harrison chronicles the lived realities of men and women navigating a culture simultaneously obsessed with and terrified by human sexuality. Harrison's work stands as a landmark study in social history, presenting Victorian sexuality not as a monolith of repression but as a dynamic battleground of competing ideologies, class anxieties, and emerging feminist consciousness. His prose is incisive and authoritative, cutting through the pious rhetoric of the era to reveal the raw human experiences beneath. The Dark Angel leaves the reader questioning just how far we have truly come from the contradictions that haunted the Victorian imagination.
Author: Fraser Harrison
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Sheldon Press
Genre: Society & culture
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Good.
Beneath the polished veneer of Victorian respectability lay a world of secrets, contradictions, and suppressed desire. Fraser Harrison's The Dark Angel: Aspects of Victorian Sexuality dismantles the myth of the prim and proper Victorian age, uncovering the complex and often hypocritical attitudes toward sex, gender, and morality that defined nineteenth-century British society. Drawing on a rich tapestry of primary sources — from medical texts and legal records to literature and private correspondence — Harrison chronicles the lived realities of men and women navigating a culture simultaneously obsessed with and terrified by human sexuality. Harrison's work stands as a landmark study in social history, presenting Victorian sexuality not as a monolith of repression but as a dynamic battleground of competing ideologies, class anxieties, and emerging feminist consciousness. His prose is incisive and authoritative, cutting through the pious rhetoric of the era to reveal the raw human experiences beneath. The Dark Angel leaves the reader questioning just how far we have truly come from the contradictions that haunted the Victorian imagination.