Marcus Other ∗victorians∗ (paper Only) - Softcover

MARCUS

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393302369 ISBN 13: 9780393302363

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1985

Synopsis

Examines Victorian literature of eroticism and flagellation for insight into the social and sexual mores of the period

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Review

Even more startling for most people, though, will be Steven Marcus's classic "The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England". First published in 1966, it will be reissued by Transaction in September with a new introduction by the author. This is not a book to read just because Foucault alluded to it in the first volume of "The History of Sexuality", or even because Marcus was doing cultural studies well before anybody was calling it that. All duly noted, of course. But "The Other Victorians" is fascinating in its own right -- a riveting look at how Victorian smut reconciled desire and anxiety in a vision of insatiable excess that Marcus calls "pornotopia."

- Scott McLemee, "Inside Higher Ed"

Even more startling for most people, though, will be Steven Marcus's classic "The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England." First published in 1966, it will be reissued by Transaction in September with a new introduction by the author. This is not a book to read just because Foucault alluded to it in the first volume of "The History of Sexuality," or even because Marcus was doing cultural studies well before anybody was calling it that. All duly noted, of course. But "The Other Victorians" is fascinating in its own right -- a riveting look at how Victorian smut reconciled desire and anxiety in a vision of insatiable excess that Marcus calls "pornotopia."

- Scott McLemee, "Inside Higher Ed"

Even more startling for most people, though, will be Steven Marcus's classic The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. First published in 1966, it will be reissued by Transaction in September with a new introduction by the author. This is not a book to read just because Foucault alluded to it in the first volume of The History of Sexuality, or even because Marcus was doing cultural studies well before anybody was calling it that. All duly noted, of course. But The Other Victorians is fascinating in its own right -- a riveting look at how Victorian smut reconciled desire and anxiety in a vision of insatiable excess that Marcus calls -pornotopia.-

- Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

About the Author

Steven Marcus is George Delacorte Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Columbia University and was Dean of Columbia University from 1993-1995. He is also the author of Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey and Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis and has edited, together with Lionel Trilling, the one-volume edition of Ernest Jones's The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud. His essays and reviews have appeared in many periodicals, including Commentary, The New York Review of Books, Partisan Review, and The New Statesman.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393302369
• ISBN 13: 9780393302363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294