Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores a surprisingly positive view of restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. It reads Decadent texts alongside medical manuals, periodicals, and adverts, finding representations of restraint as healthy, productive, and aesthetically enriching.

• | By (Author): Sarah Green (University of Oxford) (Author)
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 09, 2023
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1108831516
• | ISBN-13: 9781108831512