Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience

by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman

Book Overview

Recent books and exhibitions have shown that Victorians were not so straitlaced about sexual matters as has been popularly assumed. Ellen Bayuk Rosenman's engrossing and enlightening book proves that the Victorians were extraordinarily articulate and resourceful when it came to expressing their sexual desires. Narratives of erotic experience were written, justified to the conservative culture, and circulated for the pleasure of readers. Rosenman's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801488567
• ISBN13: 9780801488566
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"