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Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

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274 Seiten
Englisch
Cambridge University Presserschienen am09.03.2023
Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.mehr
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KlappentextCan sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-108-83151-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2023
Erscheinungsdatum09.03.2023
Seiten274 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 18 mm
Gewicht549 g
Artikel-Nr.59476807
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GenreSchulbuch

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Loss and gain: the Victorian sexual body; 2. 'A passionate coldness': Walter Pater; 3. 'A holy indifference and tolerant favour': Lionel Johnson; 4. 'An ascetic epicureanism': Vernon Lee; 5. 'Men have died of love': George Moore.mehr