Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes

By Michael Mason

Book Overview

How were Victorian sexual attitudes formed? Michael Mason's lively and provocative study takes into account the relative contributions of evangelical religion and radical-secular ideals to the period's dominant sexual culture, and argues that to be Victorian' about sex was in fact to be progressive, optimistic, emancipated--and hence modern. The prequel to this book, The Making of Victorian Sexuality, presented a detailed analysis of Victorian sexual behaviour. In this sequel, Michael Mason analyses the ideological context of the sexual moralism of nineteenth-century England.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192853198
• ISBN13: 9780192853196
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"