The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and by Diane Mason
By Diane Mason
The e-book additionally positive factors the 1st particular and balanced examine of the mostly missed literature on masturbation because it relates to ladies in scientific and renowned clinical works aimed toward the feminine reader. Mason concludes with a attention of ways the surprisingly Victorian discourse on masturbation has continued into the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries with specific connection with Willy Russell's tragic-comic novel, the incorrect Boy (2000) and to the development of 'Victorian Dad', a personality featured within the grownup comedian, Viz.
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