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Carregando... Letters from Laura and Eveline (original: 1883; edição: 1883)de Anonymous (Editor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. How do you rate Victorian erotica? I asked this question when reviewing [b:Sins of the Cities of the Plain|119666|Sins of the Cities of the Plain|Jack Saul|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347797205s/119666.jpg|115215] and I still don't have an answer. But I'll say that this book is fascinating if you are curious about conventions of Victorian pornography and historical questions of gender identity and expression. Trans fantasy is such an important part of Laura & Eveline's sexuality, as well as that of their partners. I'll proceed with caution here, as pornography is generally always far removed from reality, but the book gives insight to some of the ways in which trans people might have parsed their sexuality through/despite the reigning gender/sex hierarchies. Books like these are important to preserve because we must dispel the myth that the Victorians didn't understand sexual variances and that they didn't have an entirely bawdy underground across classes. This book in particular is highly relevant in light of contemporary transphobia that declaims transgender as a modern fad, which couldn't be further from the truth. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
In his Bibliography of Prohibited Books (1885), Henry Ashbee, the noted Victorian collector of erotic literature, described Letters from Laura and Eveline as follows: "There is a boldness in the idea upon which are based the two letters comprised in this volume, which, in spite of its monstrosity, might, with an abler and more delicate treatment, have lent itself to the creation of an attractive narrative. Conceptions equally impossible and contrary to the laws of nature have been productive of readable stories. Laura and Eveline are hermaphrodites, capable of enjoyment both active and passive, and they recount the incidents of their weddings, which take place simultaneously. ...] After these details, as disgusting as they are absurd, follows the description of an orgie, still more filthy and impossible, enacted by numerous ladies and gentlemen, at a London club, in honour of the said nuptials. The work, which is from the pen of its publisher, is mainly remarkable for its gross obscenity both in idea and language, and possesses no literary merit whatever." Letters from Laura and Eveline was first published in 1883 and was marketed as an "appendix" to the better-known The Sins of the Cities of the Plain (1881). Inspired in part by the real-life case of Boulton and Park, two young men whose cross-dressing led to their prosecution for sodomy in London in 1871, this text is, as Justin O'Hearn argues in his introduction to this edition, a fascinating example of the erotic literature that was clandestinely published in the late Victorian era. This edition reprints the only example of the book known to exist, the copy of the 1903 edition held by the British Library, and features an appendix containing rare contextual materials and illustrations. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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