Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890

✍ Scribed by Julie Peakman

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, effeminate men and masculinised women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 7
List of Illustrations......Page 11
Contributors' Details......Page 13
1 Sexual Perversion in History: An Introduction......Page 16
2 Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (Un)civil War......Page 65
3 Objects of Desire, Identity and Eros in the Writings of Lord Hervey and Charlotte Charke......Page 87
4 The Woman in Man's Clothes and the Pleasures of Delarivier Manley's 'New Cabal'......Page 110
5 The Hostile Gaze: Perverting the Female Form, 1688–1800......Page 132
6 Rape in Early Eighteenth-Century London: A Perversion 'so very perplex'd'......Page 155
7 Morbid Parts: Gender, Seduction and the Necro-Gaze......Page 182
8 Religious Sexual Perversion in Nineteenth-Century Anti-Catholic Literature......Page 217
9 Tropics of Sexuality: Sexual Excesses and 'Oriental Vices' in the British Raj......Page 236
10 Chinese Sexuality and the Bound Foot......Page 261
B......Page 291
C......Page 292
D......Page 294
F......Page 295
H......Page 296
L......Page 298
M......Page 299
O......Page 300
P......Page 301
R......Page 302
S......Page 303
T......Page 304
W......Page 305
Z......Page 306