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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Pages
- 336
- Type
- Historical narrative
- Publication Date
- 2011-02-14
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country of Origin
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780393068320
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393068323
ISBN-13
9780393068320
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84307494
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pleasure Bound : Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Psychology / Human Sexuality), Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), European, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18.3 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-027029
Reviews
A literary miracle of form and content. The book pleads with us to find the moral imagination to break the American pattern of racial abuse. Allen's ambitious, breathtaking book challenges the moral composition of the world it inhabits by telling all who listen: I loved my cousin and he loved me, and I know he'd be alive if you loved him, too., A delightful spree through Victorian England's red-light district, Deborah Lutz's Pleasure Bound explores in lucid and engaging prose the pornographic underpinnings of nineteenth-century British art, poetry, and anthropology., ""[Cuz] address[es] issues worth pondering: how codes of masculinity constrain and cripple men, the lure of violence, the mysteries of human personality and the debts family members owe one another in dire circumstances...In writing about her cousin, Allen is also elegizing other black men victimized by poverty, drugs and unequal justice. Her blend of personal anguish and social consciousness evokes not just [John Edgar] Wideman, but Jesmyn Ward's 2013 memoir, Men We Reaped."", Using a deft combination of biography, aesthetic analysis, and cultural commentary, Pleasure Bound offers a history of those Victorian writers and artists who lived--and sometimes died--for the conjoined cause of eros and art. The result is a bawdy, intricate, edifying, and sometimes heartbreaking book that sheds light on a fascinating constellation of creators, without ever losing sight of the importance of keeping--as Lutz sagely puts it -- 'the dark core dark.', "A compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story...Among the most valuable contributions Allen makes is forcing us to ask: To what end are we locking up our children? Are we not foreclosing their options before their lives have even begun'...Allen's analysis of gang culture--or "the parastate," as she calls it, with its own bylaws and tragic form of appeal--may be where she's at her ferocious best.", It is unusual to find a history of sex that is both readable and erudite. Deborah Lutz's Pleasure Bound is a delightful romp between the legs--and elsewhere--of Victorian England that offers a deeply penetrating gaze into its sexual subjects., A polished, thought-provoking, and original work of history that possesses all the finesse of literature., Pleasure Bound is a lively, readable and informative survey of the sometimes surprising connections between art, literature, and the sexual underworld in Victorian England., Pleasure Bound shines a sensitive light into the darker corners of Victorian sexuality. The sometimes subtle, sometimes consuming interplay of sensuality and death; the danger and draw of sexual transgression; the irresistible lure of forbidden pleasure--through their erotic longings and adventures, the Victorian sex rebels lead us to the heart of a struggle for authentic sexual expression in an era of repression now past. Or is it?, As seductive as a Swinburne sapphic, Pleasure Bound is for the casual reader, the aesthete and the pleasure seeker alike. If there wasn't a scholarly excuse for reading it, you'd feel guilty for having so much fun. Just don't leave it lying around.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
306.77094209034
Synopsis
As thought-provoking as it is electric, Pleasure Bound unearths the desires of the men and women who challenged buttoned-up Victorian mores to promote erotic freedom. These bohemians formed two loosely overlapping societies--the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes--to explore their fascinations with sexual taboo, from homosexuality to the eroticization of death. Known as much for their flamboyant personal lives as for their controversial masterpieces, they created a scandal-provoking counterculture that paved the way for such later figures as Gustav Klimt, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Genet. In this stunning expos of the Victorian London we thought we knew, Deborah Lutz takes us beyond the eyebrow-raising practices of these sex rebels, revealing how they uncovered troubles that ran beneath the surface of the larger social fabric: the struggle for women's emancipation, the dissolution of formal religions, and the pressing need for new forms of sexual expression., At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his only copy of a manuscript of his poems from her coffin. Legendary explorer Richard Burton wrote how-to manuals on sex positions and livened up the drawing room with stories of eroticism in the Middle East. Algernon Charles Swinburne visited flagellation brothels and wrote pornography amid his poetry. By embracing and exploring the taboo, these iconoclasts produced some of the most captivating art, literature, and ideas of their day. As thought-provoking as it is electric, Pleasure Bound unearths the desires of the men and women who challenged buttoned-up Victorian mores to promote erotic freedom. These bohemians formed two loosely overlapping societies--the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes--to explore their fascinations with sexual taboo, from homosexuality to the eroticization of death. Known as much for their flamboyant personal lives as for their controversial masterpieces, they created a scandal-provoking counterculture that paved the way for such later figures as Gustav Klimt, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Genet. In this stunning exposé of the Victorian London we thought we knew, Deborah Lutz takes us beyond the eyebrow-raising practices of these sex rebels, revealing how they uncovered troubles that ran beneath the surface of the larger social fabric: the struggle for women's emancipation, the dissolution of formal religions, and the pressing need for new forms of sexual expression., A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.
LC Classification Number
HQ18.G7L88 2011
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- 8***r (181)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaExactly as described. Extremely quick delivery. Packaged very well. Great seller and value!! Highly recommendHelps to Every Day Holiness by A.C. Rose - 1870 hardcover pub. by W.C. Palmer (#226571722504)
- 9***k (1229)- Votos emitidos por el comprador.Últimos 6 mesesCompra verificadaUnfortunately the seller decided to ship the item in a padded envelope. An inexpensive stiff cardboard envelope would have been far more adequate. Item arrived with unsightly creases almost everywhere, very different from the ad picture. Item condition was rated very good. I would rate what arrived as fair. Given the result, the eBay GSP shipping fee of US $21.91 is inadequate but in my opinion that is the seller's fault. Not seeking a refund. Definitely not recommended.Tragedy September 11 2001 Special Memorial Edition, Editorial Staff, NYC Pub. (#226371919134)