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It is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to women in clinical writing and the bestselling popular medical works aimed at the female reader

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement
Introduction
1. ‘It is more than blackguardly, it is deadly’: masturbation in the male
2. ‘A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing’?: female masturbation and its consequences
3. ‘The languor which I had long felt began to display itself
in my countenance’: vampires, lesbians and masturbators
4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: masturbation and same-sex desire in Teleny
5. ‘His behaviour betrays the actual state of things’: onanism and obsessive behaviour in Our mutual friend
6. ‘Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face’: conflicting signifiers of vice in The picture of Dorian Gray and The mystery of Edwin Drood
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

The secret vice Masturbation in Victorian fiction

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719077142, 978-0719077142
      ISBN10: 0719077141

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      It is the first book on shine light on the hitherto neglected topic of female masturbation, especially as it pertains to women in clinical writing and the bestselling popular medical works aimed at the female reader

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgement
      Introduction
      1. ‘It is more than blackguardly, it is deadly’: masturbation in the male
      2. ‘A beauty treatment that leaves us glowing’?: female masturbation and its consequences
      3. ‘The languor which I had long felt began to display itself
      in my countenance’: vampires, lesbians and masturbators
      4. ‘That mighty love which maddens one to crime’: masturbation and same-sex desire in Teleny
      5. ‘His behaviour betrays the actual state of things’: onanism and obsessive behaviour in Our mutual friend
      6. ‘Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face’: conflicting signifiers of vice in The picture of Dorian Gray and The mystery of Edwin Drood
      Afterword
      Bibliography
      Index

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