Sexual restraint and aesthetic experience in Victorian literary decadence /

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 literatur...

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Main Author: Green, Sarah, 1989- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 142.
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