The secret vice
Subtitle: masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture
By: Diane Mason.
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed exclusively in USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780719077142
Subjects: Masturbation in literature; Masturbation -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Other titles: Masturbation in Victorian fiction and medical culture
Description: Diane Mason presents a sustained examination on the discourse of masturbation in the Victorian era, an era that saw masturbation as a condition of grave scientific and medical importance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-184) and index.