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The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After
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Product Description
Bound to bring back ghastly memories to anyone who attended English public schools before the 1970's, it covers sexual flagellation before Freud; beating at home and school in the 19th and early 20th centuries (with particular emphasis on Eton); judicial, prison, army and navy flogging, flagellant prostitution and fantasy. Illustrated with contemporary cartoons, engravings, woodcuts, advertisements and drawings (some very explicit).
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3393581 in Books
- Published on: 2007-06-21
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 388 pages
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About the Author
Ian Gibson lives in a village near Granada, Spain. His Federico Garcia Lorca: A Life won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was named a Best Book of 1989 by the New York Times and the Boston Globe. His most recent book, The Erotomaniac, is a biography of the Victorian pornographer Henry Spencer Ashbee.
