The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture

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by  Colette Colligan (auth.)

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THETRAFFICINOBSCENITYFROMBYRONTOBEARDSLEY
SexualityandExoticisminNineteenth-CenturyPrintCulture
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SEXUALVISUALITYFROMLITERATURETOFILM,1850–1950
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The Traffic in Obscenity
from Byron to Beardsley
Sexuality and Exoticism in
Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
Colette Colligan
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Contents
ListofFigures ix
ListofPlates xi
Acknowledgements xii
1 TheTrafficinObscenity 1
1 Introduction 1
2 An‘extensivetraffic’:theprinttradeinnineteenth-century
Britishobscenity 9
2 HaremsandLondon’sUndergroundPrintCulture 23
1 TheunrulycopiesofByron’sDonJuan:harems,popular
printculture,andtheageofmechanicalreproduction 24
2 Haremnovels:theLustfulTurktoMoslemErotism 45
3 SirRichardBurton,theArabianNights,andArabSexManuals 56
1 ‘Esotericpornography’:SirRichardBurton’stranslationof
theArabianNights 58
2 ‘Araceofbornpederasts’:‘Pederasty’,ThePerfumedGarden,
andTheScentedGarden 73
3 CollectingBritishobscenity:Marriage–LoveandWoman
AmongsttheArabsandTheOldManYoungAgain 87
4 TheEnglishViceandTransatlanticSlavery 96
1 Theprurientgaze:thefloggedslavewomanamongBritish
abolitionists 97
2 Slaveryobscenityinthe1880s:WilliamLazenby’sThePearl
andTheCremorne 104
3 Slaveryobscenityattheturn-of-the-century:DollyMortonto
WhiteWomenSlaves 114
4 Whippinginthetwentiethcentury:thefugitiveimage 122
5 Japanese Erotic Prints and Late Nineteenth-Century
Obscenity 125
1 ThetrafficinJapaneseeroticprints 126
2 AubreyBeardsley’slibidinalline:Japonisme,ArtNouveau,and
obscenity 129
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3 Japaneseprostitution: AmorousAdventuresofaJapanese
GentlemantoYoshiwara:TheNightlessCity 162
Coda:TheObscenityoftheReal 169
Notes 173
Bibliography 208
Index 227
List of Figures
1 Anonymousphotographusingphotomontage,1895–1900.By
permissionoftheKinseyInstituteforResearchinSex,Gender,
andReproduction,Bloomington,Indiana 17
2 Anonymousphotographofwomanwitheroticalbum,1885.
BypermissionoftheKinseyInstituteforResearchinSex,
Gender,andReproduction,Bloomington,Indiana 18
3 [H.Heath],[MarchofMind],[1826?].Bypermissionofthe
BritishMuseum,London 25
4 ThomasRowlandson,TheHarem[after1812].Bypermissionof
theBritishMuseum,London 33
5 ThomasRowlandson,ThePasha[after1812].Bypermissionof
theBritishMuseum,London 34
6 J.L.Marks,SultanShamandHisSevenWives.London:Benbow,
1820.BypermissionoftheBritishMuseum,London 35
7 J. L. Marks, Cuckold Cunning**m Frighten’d at his W – f’s
Caricature.London:Benbow,1820.Bypermissionofthe
BritishMuseum,London 36
8 DonJuan[IsaacRobertCruikshank],TheLibelPublisherCutUp.
London: J. Fairburn, 1825. By permission of the British
Museum,London 43
9 Anonymous,FourSpecimensoftheReadingPublic.London:
J.Fairburn,7Aug.1826.BypermissionoftheBritishMuseum,
London 47
10 Anonymous,‘TheBarbarousCrueltyInflictedonaNegro’,
CuriousAdventuresofCaptainStedman,DuringanExpeditionto
Surinam.London:ThomasTegg[c.1805].Bypermissionofthe
BritishLibrary,London 101
11 AubreyBeardsley,J’aiBaisétaBoucheIokanaan.TheStudio1
(April1863) 132
12 AubreyBeardsley,EnterHerodias,uncensoredversionforOscar
Wilde,Salome.London:JohnLane,1894.Bypermissionofthe
VictoriaandAlbertMuseum,London 135
13 AubreyBeardsley,TheToiletofSalomeI,originalversionfor
OscarWilde,Salome.London:JohnLane,1894.Bypermission
oftheVictoriaandAlbertMuseum,London 136
14 Aubrey Beardsley, The Stomach Dance for Oscar Wilde,
Salome.London:JohnLane,1894.Bypermissionof
HarvardUniversityArtMuseums,Cambridge,
Massachusetts 137
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