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Governing pleasures: pornography and social change in England, 1815-1914

Lisa Z. Sigel c2002 © Rutgers University Press
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  • 9780813530024 (paper)
  • 9780813533049 (ebook)
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  • European: 1800-present
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  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Sexual Imaginings
  • Chapter 1 Revolutionary Pornography
    • Pornography as a Political Act
    • William Dugdale and the Production of Revolution
    • The Audience: Debased Aristocracy or the English Working Class?
    • The Literature: Republican Virtues
    • Bucolic Pleasures and Old Corruption
    • The Imaginary Harem and the Problems of Sodomy
    • The Exquisite and the Failures of Republican Sexual Politics
    • New Political Rights on Old Politicized Bodies
  • Chapter 2 Sexuality Raw and Cooked Empirical and Imperial Pornography
    • Of Cannibals
    • The Politics of Production and Consumption
    • Ashbee and Scientific Legitimacy
    • The Kama Sutra and the Search for the Exotic
    • The Problem with Physiological Explanations
    • Reconstructing the Body's Politics: Phallic Worship and Flagellation
    • Science and Sexuality
  • Chapter 3 The Pearl before Swine Fetishism and Consumer Culture
    • [Intro]
    • Publishers and Distribution Networks
    • Audience
    • Literary Patterns: The Fiction and The Fetish
  • Chapter 4 Filth in the Wrong People's Hands Postcards and the Expansion of Pornography
    • [Intro]
    • The Rise of the Pornographic Postcard and the Expansion of Access
    • Major Themes in Pornographic Postcards
    • The Social Impact of an Expanded Audience
    • Objects, Subjects, and Social Control
  • Conclusion Sexuality Re-imagined
  • Notes
    • Introduction: Sexual Imaginings
    • Chapter 1: Revolutionary Pornography
    • Chapter 2: Sexuality Raw and Cooked
    • Chapter 3: The Pearl before Swine
    • Chapter 4: Filth in the Wrong People's Hands
    • Conclusion: Sexuality Re-imagined
  • References
    • Manuscript Sources
      • Fawcett Library Papers
      • Public Records Office
      • Private Collections
      • Library and Museum Collections
    • Primary Sources (Nonpornographic)
    • Primary Sources (Pornographic)
    • Secondary Sources
  • Index
  • About the Author

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Anonymous drawing: Cunnilingus.

Figure 1. Anonymous drawing: Cunnilingus.

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Frontispiece: The Frisky Songster.

Figure 2. Frontispiece: The Frisky Songster.

With permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Thomas Rowlandson, "The Star Gazer," circa 1820s.

Figure 3. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Star Gazer," circa 1820s.

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Thomas Rowlandson, "The Curious Parson," circa 1820s.

Figure 4. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Curious Parson," circa 1820s.

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Thomas Rowlandson, "The Jugglers," circa 1820s.

Figure 5. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Jugglers," circa 1820s.

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Thomas Rowlandson, "The Harem," circa 1820s.

Figure 6. Thomas Rowlandson, "The Harem," circa 1820s.

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Frontispiece: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum.

Figure 7. Frontispiece: Centuria Librorum Absconditorum.

Cabinet portrait of geishas.

Cabinet portrait of geishas.

Figure 8. Cabinet portrait of geishas.

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Illustration from John Davenport's Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs.

Figure 9. Illustration from John Davenport's Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs.

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Photographs from a catalogue of artist's models.

Figure 10. Photographs from a catalogue of artist's models.

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Photographic catalogue: "Bijoux 118."

Figure 11. Photographic catalogue: "Bijoux 118."

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Photograph: Reclining woman.

Figure 12. Photograph: Reclining woman.

Photograph: Woman with garland.

Photograph: Woman with garland.

Figure 13. Photograph: Woman with garland.

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Photograph: Woman (in bonnet) and man.

Figure 14. Photograph: Woman (in bonnet) and man.

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Photograph: Ménage, two women and one man.

Figure 15. Photograph: Ménage, two women and one man.

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Photograph: Ménage, two men and one woman.

Figure 16. Photograph: Ménage, two men and one woman.

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Photograph: Seaside fellatio.

Figure 17. Photograph: Seaside fellatio.

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Catalogue: "La Lune à 1 mètre." [The moon at 1 meter]

Figure 18. Catalogue: "La Lune à 1 mètre." [The moon at 1 meter]

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Photograph: Two women with bottle.

Figure 19. Photograph: Two women with bottle.

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Postcard: Woman in an indiscreet bodystocking.

Figure 20. Postcard: Woman in an indiscreet bodystocking.

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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JHSex 11.4 (2002): 695-696 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_sexuality/v011/11.4sinfield.html
AHR 108.1 (Feb. 2003): 256-257 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/533171
VS 45.4 (Summer 2003): 777-779 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v045/45.4forman.html
JSocH 37.4 (2004): 1119-1121 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_social_history/v037/37.4white.html
WRB 20.1 (Oct. 2002): 8-9 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4024012
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