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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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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • 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.

With permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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.

With permission of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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.

With permission of the Kinsey Institute.

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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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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