The secret vice : masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture / Diane Mason.

By:

Mason, Diane Elizabeth

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781847791795
1847791794
9781781701089
1781701083

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Secret vice.DDC classification:

823.8093538 22

LOC classification:

PR868.M378 M37 2008

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Contents:

Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'It is more than blackguardly, it is deadly'Masturbation in the male; 2 'A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing'? Female masturbation and its consequences; 3 'The languor which I had long felt began to display itself in my countenance 'Vampires, lesbians and masturbators; 4 'That mighty love which maddens one to crime' Masturbation and same-sex desire in Teleny; 5 'His behaviour betrays the actual state of things' Onanism and obsessive behaviour in Our Mutual Friend.

6 'Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face' Conflicting signifiers of vice in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Mystery of Edwin DroodAfterword; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American practitioners and demonstrates the influence and impact of these writings, not only on Victorian pornography but also in the creation of fictional characters by canonical authors such as Bram Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The book also features the first detailed and balanced study of the largely overlooked li.

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6 'Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face' Conflicting signifiers of vice in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Mystery of Edwin DroodAfterword; Bibliography; Index.

The secret vice: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American practitioners and demonstrates the influence and impact of these writings, not only on Victorian pornography but also in the creation of fictional characters by canonical authors such as Bram Stoker, J.S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde. The book also features the first detailed and balanced study of the largely overlooked li.