{"product_id":"pleasure-bound-9780393068320","title":"Pleasure Bound","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePleasure Bound\u003c\/em\u003e shines a sensitive light into the darker corners of Victorian sexuality. The sometimes subtle, sometimes consuming interplay of sensuality and death; the danger and draw of sexual transgression; the irresistible lure of forbidden pleasure--through their erotic longings and adventures, the Victorian sex rebels lead us to the heart of a struggle for authentic sexual expression in an era of repression now past. Or is it?\" -- Patricia Anderson, Ph.D., author of When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePleasure Bound\u003c\/em\u003e is a lively, readable and informative survey of the sometimes surprising connections between art, literature, and the sexual underworld in Victorian England.\" -- David Lodge, author of Deaf Sentence\u003cbr\u003e\"As seductive as a Swinburne sapphic, \u003cem\u003ePleasure Bound\u003c\/em\u003e is for the casual reader, the aesthete and the pleasure seeker alike. If there wasn't a scholarly excuse for reading it, you'd feel guilty for having so much fun. Just don't leave it lying around.\" -- Wesley Stace, author of Misfortune\u003cbr\u003e\"Using a deft combination of biography, aesthetic analysis, and cultural commentary, \u003cem\u003ePleasure Bound\u003c\/em\u003e offers a history of those Victorian writers and artists who lived—and sometimes died—for the conjoined cause of eros and art. The result is a bawdy, intricate, edifying, and sometimes heartbreaking book that sheds light on a fascinating constellation of creators, without ever losing sight of the importance of keeping—as Lutz sagely puts it -- 'the dark core dark.'\" -- Maggie Nelson, author of The Art of Cruelty\u003cbr\u003e\"A delightful spree through Victorian England's red-light district, Deborah Lutz's \u003cem\u003ePleasure Bound\u003c\/em\u003e explores in lucid and engaging prose the pornographic underpinnings of nineteenth-century British art, poetry, and anthropology.\" -- Matthew  Kaiser, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\"It is unusual to find a history of sex that is both readable and erudite. Deborah Lutz’s \u003cem\u003ePleasure Bound\u003c\/em\u003e is a delightful romp between the legs—and elsewhere—of Victorian England that offers a deeply penetrating gaze into its sexual subjects.\" -- Frederick S. Roden, author of Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture\u003cbr\u003e\"A polished, thought-provoking, and original work of history that possesses all the finesse of literature.\" -- Simon Van Booy, author of The Secret Lives of People in Love","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401977078103,"sku":"9780393068320","price":29.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393068320.jpg?v=1730479022","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pleasure-bound-9780393068320","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}