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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Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Loss and gain: the Victorian sexual body
- 'A passionate coldness': Walter Pater
- 'A holy indifference and tolerant favour': Lionel Johnson
- 'An ascetic epicureanism': Vernon Lee
- 'Men have died of love': George Moore.
