The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture 0719077141, 9780719077142

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It is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to

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Through reference to over six hundred scenes from film and television-as well as a diverse and cross-disciplinary academ

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Joseph Childers contends that novels such as Benjamin Disraeli's Coningsby, Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton, a

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An innovative study of how the Victorians used books, portraits, fairies, microscopes, and dollhouses to imagine miniatu

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Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias—why did millions of nineteenth-century American men belong to these and othe

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In Scenes of Sympathy, Audrey Jaffe argues that representations of sympathy in Victorian fiction both reveal and unsettl

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Late nineteenth-century England witnessed the emergence of a vociferous and well-organzied movement against the use of l

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Late nineteenth-century England witnessed the emergence of a vociferous and well-organzied movement against the use of l

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Among the works she discusses are Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, two novels

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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. Arguing t

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