The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley2006
Sexuality & Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)
by Colette Colligan
Colette Colligan offers an original and compelling examination of obscenity in nineteenth-century British print culture. While carefully following its most significant commercial, legal, and discursive formations in the period, she argues that nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade, and exoticism. Her stylish introduction, together with her thoroughly researched four main case studies, offers a unique juxtaposition of nineteenth-century authors, publications, imagery, and events, both well known and underground. Escaping the limitations of dominant histories and theories of nineteenth-century obscenity governed by notions of "The Other Victorians," she reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority...