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Journal articles on the topic "Victorian pornography"

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Davis, Tracy C. "The Actress in Victorian Pornography." Theatre Journal 41, no. 3 (October 1989): 294. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3208182.

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STOOPS, JAMIE. "CLASS AND GENDER DYNAMICS OF THE PORNOGRAPHY TRADE IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN." Historical Journal 58, no. 1 (February 9, 2015): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x14000090.

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ABSTRACTDuring the second half of the nineteenth century, British social purity campaigners framed the pornography trade as a major source of cultural and moral pollution. As in their anti-prostitution efforts, purity campaigners presented the abolition of pornography as an attempt to protect women, children, and impressionable members of the lower classes from sexual immorality. Their rhetoric and policy efforts, however, reveal deeply entrenched fears of middle-class vulnerability to the negative effects of pornographic literature and images. Building on existing obscenity studies scholarship, this article explores the role of class and gender tension in nineteenth-century pornography regulation. In contrast to the majority of work on Victorian pornography, this article focuses on the British lower classes as producers and distributors rather than consumers of pornography. In addition, this article argues for a higher level of female participation in the pornography trade than has been previously recognized. By focusing on the contradictions and biases at the heart of campaigns against pornography, this article explores the ways in which regulation efforts and discourses of obscenity were shaped by the class and gender dynamics of the pornography trade.

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Søndergaard, Nina. "Mit hemmelige liv - En victoriansk sexodyssé." Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, no. 61 (March 9, 2018): 127–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/sl.v0i61.104063.

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The bulky and anonymous sexual autobiography My Secret Life from Victorian England is here read very closely in order to shed new light on Victorian sexual practices and views on sexuality. Some of the examples dealt with are nudity during intercourse, female orgasm and fulfilment through intercourse as preferable over masturbation – all examples of practices which force us to question the traditional views on Victorian sexual life. This reassessment of sexuality in Victorian times is not widely shared. Scholars have dealt with the work as pornography (Gubar), pure fiction (Gibson) or a credible depiction of contemporary daily life containing pornographic elements, namely the descriptions of the women’s pleasure (Marcus). In the article it is argued that the author’s intention was to give female sexuality a voice.

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Hall, Donald E. "Teaching Victorian Pornography: Hermeneutics and Sexuality." Victorian Review 34, no. 2 (2008): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2008.0032.

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Rossi, Stefano. "Female Onanism: Condemned Pleasures, Medical Probes, and Late-Victorian Pornography." Victoriographies 11, no. 2 (July 2021): 148–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/vic.2021.0420.

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The more Victorian physicians deepened their research into female sexuality, the more a culture of lust infected the hypocritical façade of a nation strictly attached to social norms of order, formality, and bigotry. Lascivious sexual desire and carnal appetite – here embodied in female masturbation – were taboos that had to be forcibly silenced. Yet, late-Victorian pornography mocked medical discourses on female onanism, as well as fears related to female sexuality, and revealed ‘unspeakable’ secret domestic settings marred by ‘dangerous’ practices, scandalous carnality and deviant desires. Furthermore, contemptuous of literary censorship and strict morality, the plenteous erotic literature, represented here by William Lazenby's pornographic magazine The Pearl, not only dared to taunt physicians’ concerns about female ‘self-pollution’ circulating at that time, but also found a great inspiration in the huge domestic success of some innovative medical tools – specifically patented to assuage women's nerves – being produced in those years: electric vibrators. Those ‘engines’ rapidly invaded pornographic literature of the late nineteenth century and became central to a great number of erotic stories, titillating fables and poems, as clearly demonstrated by the contents of The Pearl.

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Frederickson, Kathleen. "Victorian Pornography and the Laws of Genre." Literature Compass 8, no. 5 (May 2011): 340–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00800.x.

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Joudrey. "Penetrating Boundaries: An Ethics of Anti-Perfectionism in Victorian Pornography." Victorian Studies 57, no. 3 (2015): 423. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/victorianstudies.57.3.423.

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Mazurek, Monika. "PERVERTS TO ROME: PROTESTANT GENDER ROLES AND THE ABJECTION OF CATHOLICISM." Victorian Literature and Culture 44, no. 3 (August 30, 2016): 687–723. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150316000085.

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“Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan,” noticed Richard Hofstadter in his famous essay “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (21). This observation, made in the 1960s, draws upon centuries-old tradition of casting Catholics in the role of sexual perverts, not only in American politics but also in British politics and culture. Through the study of anti-Catholic Victorian writing we can analyse the particular crux embodied in Hofstadter's pithy remark: a mixture of moral superiority combined with prurient enjoyment of the described practices it purports to condemn. This part of my study is dedicated to the Victorian novel and its depictions of Catholic sexuality, which, as the novelists often suggested, was either stifled and warped or rampant, but either way it transgressed the boundaries delineated by the Protestant family ideal. It also discusses Victorian gender roles and the ways in which Catholicism was allegedly undermining them.

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Dau, Duc. "THE GOVERNESS, HER BODY, AND THRESHOLDS INTHE ROMANCE OF LUST." Victorian Literature and Culture 42, no. 2 (March 10, 2014): 281–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150313000442.

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In his groundbreaking study ofVictorian pornography,The Other Victorians, Steven Marcus draws on passages fromThe Romance of Lust(1873–76) to elucidate his now-famous term, “pornotopia.” To Marcus's mind, this text, like other pornographic novels, has few, if any, redeeming features. While the literary novel fleshes out the lives of its characters, pornography dwells endlessly on fleshly relations, he argues. Pornography, in fact, tends towards utopian fantasy, towards pornotopia. “More than most utopias,” says Marcus, “pornography takes the injunction of its etymology literally – it may be said largely to exist at no place, and to take place in nowhere” (268). In a pornotopia, time is always bedtime (269), life begins not at birth but at the moment of sexual awakening (270), and relations between characters are merely juxtapositions of bodies, body parts, and organs (274). Introducing an orgy scene fromThe Romance of Lust, Marcus asserts, “[t]his novel comes as close as anything I know to being a pure pornotopia in the sense that almost every human consideration apart from sexuality is excluded from it” (274). Pornography's lack, that is, its apparent disconnection from realistic settings and human relations, is a consequence and sign of human deprivation. “Pornotopia could in fact only have been imagined by persons who have suffered extreme deprivation,” he holds, “and I do not by this mean sexual deprivation in the genital sense alone. . . . The insatiability depicted in it seems to me to be literal insatiability, and the orgies endlessly represented are the visions of permanently hungry men” (273). Thus, “[i]nside of every pornographer there is an infant screaming for the breast from which he has been torn” (274).

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Vitis, Laura. "Vagaries, Anxieties and the Imagined Paedophile: A Victorian Case Study on Mandatory Sex Offender Registration for Young Adult Registrants Convicted after Non-Consensually Distributing Intimate Images." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 7, no. 4 (December 1, 2018): 115–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ijcjsd.v7i4.1084.

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This article focuses on interviews with two Australian young adults (and their parents) who were placed on Victoria’s Sex Offender Register after being convicted of child pornography offences for non-consensually distributing intimate images. It examines Victoria’s modality of automatic registration—which simultaneously constitutes registrants as paedophilic and responsibilised subjects—and the extent to which this modality was negotiated by both young men. This article also explores the collateral socio-political consequences of registration on career opportunities, mental health and family relationships, and details how these impacts are modulated by young adulthood.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Victorian pornography"

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Burns, Robert Jonathan. "On the Limits of Culture: Why Biology is Important in the Study of Victorian Sexuality." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/13.

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Much recent scholarship in Victorian studies has viewed sexuality as historically contingent and constructed primarily within the realm of discourse or social organization. In contrast, the following study details species-typical and universal aspects of human sexuality that must be adequately theorized if an accurate model of the ideological forces impacting Victorian sexuality is to be fashioned. After a short survey of previous scholarly projects that examine literature through the lens of biology—much of it marred by an obvious antipathy toward all attempts to discover the involvement of ideology in human behavior—this study presents a lengthy primer to the modern study of evolutionary psychology, behavioral genetics, and human sexuality. Because the use of science is still relatively rare in literary studies, the first chapters are designed both to convince the reader of the necessity of considering biology and evolution in examining human sexuality, as well as to provide the general educated scholar in our field with the basic framework of knowledge necessary to follow the remainder of the text. Chapter three follows with a detailed examination of the sources of the political resistance to biological and genetic models of human behavior within liberal arts and social science departments, and chapter four presents an evolutionary and biochemical model for the apprehension of art that locates the origins of culture within the evolutionarily-fashioned brains of individuals and attempts to recuperate the concept of aesthetic emotion and foreground the special nature of erotica in its ability to produce immediate neurochemical effects in the brains of its consumers. Finally, the study examines works of Victorian literature, especially My Secret Life, to demonstrate the deficiencies in constructionist and interactionist theories of human sexuality while detailing the new readings that emerge when one is aware of the biological basis of human mate selection mechanisms.

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Lin, Min-tser, and 林明澤. "In the Name of Jouissance: A Psychoanalytic Study of Victorian Sexuality and Pornography." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77245088140407740108.

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As the subtitle indicates, the present study presents its analysis of Victorian sexuality and pornography by means of the theoretical framework developed from Freud’s and Lacan’s psychoanalytic teachings. The general layout of the dissertation goes as follows. The Introduction tries to justify a psychoanalytic approach to the subjects in question by affirming the determining role of sexuality for human beings as such. An ethical, political, or aesthetic consideration of sexuality and pornography can yield a better result only under this fundamental thesis about human sexuality. The first chapter tries to describe the pattern of connection between Victorian public discussions on sex and pornography, in terms of discursive formality and jouissance. The public writings on sex are first posited as the Lacanian Other, and its unfolding into the Other of Law and then into the Other of jouissance is presented through textual analysis of these writings. The Lacanian theorization about the dialectics of the prohibitive Law and transgressive jouissance is introduced to explain how the public discussions evolve around the same fantasy scenarios as the pornographic literature. It is also to be shown that Victorian pornography grasps upon the Other’s jouissance already intimated but denied by the public discourse. Besides, the general populace’s ambivalence toward sexual jouissance is described to explain the secret fascination the pornographic phenomena might exert on the “normal” individuals. The second chapter is basically the continuation of the first chapter, but the focus of analysis now shifts to the pornographic phenomena within a more concrete socio-historical context, along with its analogical representations in contemporary erotic stories. Following the explanatory model set up in the previous chapter, the former half of the chapter traces the psychical process whereby a general perception about “the death of God” during the age prompted many Victorians to defend against the ensuing anxiety. They either engaged in an over-identification with the disrupted Christian doctrines or a hasty invocation of obscene superego figures in the guise of pseudo-messiahs. Lacan has postulated that the Christian precept, “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” is the psychical consequence of “the death of God.” So the latter part of the chapter describes the libidinal economy whereby the male bourgeoisie consolidated its self image and accrued its lion’s share of jouissance in its “philanthropic” efforts directed to/against those on the other side of the gender, age, class divides. Pornographic representations of women, children, and working classes are also analyzed as analogical proofs of this mentality. In the third chapter, the discursive features of Victorian pornography are the sole focus of analysis. The Lacanian conceptions of the two psychic structures, psychosis and perversion, are described in terms of how each structure establishes its relationship with the Other’s jouissance and how this relationship materializes in the discourse specific to each structure. The stylistic features, scenario arrangements, and world visions that characterize Victorian pornography are examined according to the psychotic and perverse structures. The examination shows how pornographic narration tries and fails to capture the sexual jouissance in the network of signification and how the network is in turn affected by the intrusion of jouissance. Finally, the Conclusion starts by reviewing sketchily the debate in the recent decades over pornography among the Anglo-American feminists and liberals. The review shows that sexuality itself, more than the rights of the sexually oppressed, is the real focus of the controversy. This study of pornography thus ends by suggesting a way out of the vicious circle of writing in the name of jouissance, into a social space of negotiation for a new ethics of sexual representation.

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Books on the topic "Victorian pornography"

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The other Victorians: A study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-century England. New Brunswick [N.J.]: Transaction Publishers, 2008.

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undifferentiated, Walter. My Secret Life: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Early Memories, Vol I. Stroud, England: History Press, 2007.

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undifferentiated, Walter. My Secret Life: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Adventures on My Aunt's Farm, Vol II. Stroud, England: History Press, 2007.

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Thompson, Dave. Black and white and blue: Adult cinema from the Victorian age to the VCR. Toronto, ON: ECW Press, 2007.

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Society, Erotic Print. Sins of Our Fathers: Study in Victorian Pornography. Erotic Print Society, 2003.

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Hunter, David. Alice in Wonderland: A Masterpiece of Victorian Pornography? Gold Star Pr, 1989.

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(Editor), Paul Ryan, and Erotic Print Society (Corporate Author), eds. The Sins of Our Fathers: A Study in Victorian Pornography. Erotic Print Society, 2000.

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My Secret Life: The Sex Diary of a Victorian "Gentleman". Sandbach, Cheshire, England: Bawdy Books (Imprint of Knowledge Computing), 2007.

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My Secret Life: The Sex Diary of a Victorian "Gentleman". Sandbach, Cheshire, England: Bawdy Books (Imprint of Knowledge Computing), 2007.

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Marks, Laura Helen. Alice in Pornoland. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042140.001.0001.

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This book argues that pornographic film relies on a particular "Victorianness" in generating eroticism—a Gothic Victorianness that is monstrous and restrained, repressed but also perverse, static but also transformative, and preoccupied with gender, sexuality, race, and time. Pornographic films enthusiastically expose the perceived hypocrisy of this Victorianness, rhetorically equating it with mainstream, legitimate culture, as a way of staging pornography’s alleged sexual authenticity and transgressive nature. Through an analysis of porn set during the nineteenth century and porn adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this book shows how these adaptations expose the implicit pornographic aspects of “legitimate” culture while also revealing the extent to which “high” and “low” genres rely on each other for self-definition. In the process, neo-Victorian pornographies draw on Gothic spaces and icons in order to situate itself as this Gothic other, utilizing the Gothic and the monstrous to craft a transformative, pornographic space. These neo-Victorian Gothic pornographies expose the way the genre as a whole emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates gender, sexuality, and race through the lens of history and legacy.

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Book chapters on the topic "Victorian pornography"

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Muller, Nadine. "Sexual f(r)ictions: Pornography in neo-Victorian women’s fiction." In The Female Figure in Contemporary Historical Fiction, 115–33. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137283382_7.

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Pietrzak-Franger, Monika. "Recognizing Syphilis: Pornographic Knowledge and the Politics of Explanation." In Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture, 71–126. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49535-4_3.

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Marks, Laura Helen. "Behind Closed Doors." In Alice in Pornoland, 31–65. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042140.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses hardcore films that, rather than adapting a specific literary text, set the sexual action in the nineteenth century. These films appropriate Victorian costume, customs, imagery, ideology, and other symbolism, revealing the rhetoric of transgression and sexual progressiveness employed by pornography in staging the Victorian for erotic appeal. These films illuminate the complex ways in which pornography and its consumers make use of “the Victorian” as a repressed yet perverse space populated by rigid class and gender distinctions, tantalizing thresholds and doorways ready to be crossed, secret domestic spaces ripe for sexualization, uptight but secretly sexual women, proper but perverse families, and other nineteenth-century sexual goings-on that pornography claims it has the guts to reveal. At the same time, these films situate themselves as heirs to a violent, racist, misogynistic, and pornographic legacy that can be erotically explored via the distancing mechanism of the Victorian.

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Marks, Laura Helen. "Conclusion." In Alice in Pornoland, 171–80. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042140.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses the recent discourse surrounding sex work and pornography that uncannily recalls the rhetoric of the Victorian age. Current bad-faith efforts to combat “sex trafficking” and regulate pornographic access and content signals a return to the sex panic of the nineteenth century. Porn studies as a pedagogical movement is vital in turning the tide toward a more informed and helpful understanding of sex work and sexual representation. Ironically, much of what pornography has to say about the Victorian era applies to the present day, an echo that pornographers are all too aware of. The chapter advocates for further developments in porn studies, greater attention to meaningful engagement with porn as a media product and sphere of labor, and porn literacy as a standard component of education.

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