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The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley. Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture.
Dr Colette Colligan
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Hardback. Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 249 pages, 39 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 455.
Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.
Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230003439
SKU
V9780230003439
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99-15
About Dr Colette Colligan
COLETTE COLLIGAN is Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her essays on Nineteenth-century literature and culture, print and media studies, and the history of obscenity appear in edited collections and leading scholarly journals. She is at work on a study of 'Pornography of the Real', which explores the convergence of documentary and pornographic realism in the Nineteenth-century. ... Read more
Reviews for The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley. Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture.
'Colette Colligan's fascinating book...draws on material from all these collections, and is itself an important contribution to the historical understanding of obscenity, as well as, more locally, to the famously vexed subject of the sexual mores of the Victorians.' - Gowan Dawson, Archives (British Records Association) 'A book with great value for helping us to understand obscenity's ... Read more