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Nineteenth-Century British Pornography: Sources and Materials

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anthropology of sex
British Literature
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erotic science
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History of Science
Literary History
Mass Printing
medical discourse
nineteenth-century sexual knowledge production
obscenity law
Radical Pornography
Scientific Pornography
sexual medicine
Victorian sexuality

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032213729
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This volume focuses on the entanglement of pornography and science. Although both categories became better defined during the nineteenth century, they intersected in various ways. Documents in the volume illustrate how medical and pornographic writing were treated as companionate genres in the emerging pornography trade, which together furnished customers with what they needed to enjoy healthy, happy sex lives; how medical and scientific writing could be used as a form of entertainment, and informed sexual fantasies in pornographic fiction; and how pornography was used in the making of sexual-scientific knowledge. They also illustrate challenges that these intersections presented for state authorities and scientific fields.
About

Sarah Bull is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is the author of Selling Sexual Knowledge: Medical Publishing and Obscenity in Victorian Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2025).