The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture PDF
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PalgraveStudiesinNineteenth-CenturyWritingandCulture GeneralEditor:JosephBristow,ProfessorofEnglish,UCLA Editorial Advisory Board: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck College, University of London; JosephineMcDonagh,LinacreCollege,UniversityofOxford;YopiePrins,University ofMichigan;LindsaySmith,UniversityofSussex;MargaretD.Stetz,Universityof Delaware;JennyBourneTaylor,UniversityofSussex Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture is a new monograph series that aims to represent the most innovative research on literary works that were producedintheEnglish-speakingworldfromthetimeoftheNapoleonicWarstothe findesiècle.Attentivetothehistoricalcontinuitiesbetween‘Romantic’and‘Victorian’, theserieswillfeaturestudiesthathelpscholarshiptoreassessthemeaningofthese termsduringacenturymarkedbydiversecultural,literary,andpoliticalmovements. The main aim of the series is to look at the increasing influence of types of histor- icism on our understanding of literary forms and genres. It reflects the shift from critical theory to cultural history that has affected not only the period 1800–1900 butalsoeveryfieldwithinthedisciplineofEnglishliterature.Alltitlesintheseries seektoofferfreshcriticalperspectivesandchallengingreadingsofbothcanonicaland non-canonicalwritingsofthisera. Titlesinclude: LaurelBrakeandJulieF.Codell(editors) ENCOUNTERSINTHEVICTORIANPRESS Editors,Authors,Readers ColetteColligan THETRAFFICINOBSCENITYFROMBYRONTOBEARDSLEY SexualityandExoticisminNineteenth-CenturyPrintCulture DennisDenisoff SEXUALVISUALITYFROMLITERATURETOFILM,1850–1950 LauraE.Franey VICTORIANTRAVELWRITINGANDIMPERIALVIOLENCE LawrenceFrank VICTORIANDETECTIVEFICTIONANDTHENATUREOFEVIDENCE TheScientificInvestigationsofPoe,DickensandDoyle JarlathKilleen THEFAITHSOFOSCARWILDE Catholicism,FolkloreandIreland StephanieKudukWeiner REPUBLICANPOLITICSANDENGLISHPOETRY,1789–1874 KirstenMacLeod FICTIONSOFBRITISHDECADENCE HighArt,PopularWritingandtheFindeSiècle DianaMaltz BRITISHAESTHETICISMANDTHEURBANWORKINGCLASSES,1870–1900 CatherineMaxwellandPatriciaPulham(editors) VERNONLEE Decadence,Ethics,Aesthetics DavidPayne THEREENCHANTMENTOFNINETEENTH-CENTURYFICTION Dickens,Thackeray,GeorgeEliotandSerialization JuliaReid ROBERTLOUISSTEVENSON,SCIENCE,ANDTHEFINDESIÈCLE AnaParejoVadillo WOMENPOETSANDURBANAESTHETICISM PassengersofModernity PalgraveStudiesinNineteenthCenturyWritingandCultureSeries StandingOrderISBN978-0-333-97700–2(hardback) (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order.Pleasecontactyourbookselleror,incaseofdifficulty,writetousattheaddress belowwithyournameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandtheISBNquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture Colette Colligan ©ColetteColligan2006 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-0-230-00343-9 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noparagraphofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, 90TottenhamCourtRoad,LondonW1T4LP. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorisedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2006by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN Houndmills,Basingstoke,HampshireRG216XSand 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,N.Y.10010 Companiesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld PALGRAVEMACMILLANistheglobalacademicimprintofthePalgrave MacmillandivisionofSt.Martin’sPress,LLCandofPalgraveMacmillanLtd. Macmillan(cid:2)isaregisteredtrademarkintheUnitedStates,UnitedKingdom andothercountries.PalgraveisaregisteredtrademarkintheEuropean Unionandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-28113-8 ISBN 978-0-230-59585-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230595859 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 For my Mother This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures ix ListofPlates xi Acknowledgements xii 1 TheTrafficinObscenity 1 1 Introduction 1 2 An‘extensivetraffic’:theprinttradeinnineteenth-century Britishobscenity 9 2 HaremsandLondon’sUndergroundPrintCulture 23 1 TheunrulycopiesofByron’sDonJuan:harems,popular printculture,andtheageofmechanicalreproduction 24 2 Haremnovels:theLustfulTurktoMoslemErotism 45 3 SirRichardBurton,theArabianNights,andArabSexManuals 56 1 ‘Esotericpornography’:SirRichardBurton’stranslationof theArabianNights 58 2 ‘Araceofbornpederasts’:‘Pederasty’,ThePerfumedGarden, andTheScentedGarden 73 3 CollectingBritishobscenity:Marriage–LoveandWoman AmongsttheArabsandTheOldManYoungAgain 87 4 TheEnglishViceandTransatlanticSlavery 96 1 Theprurientgaze:thefloggedslavewomanamongBritish abolitionists 97 2 Slaveryobscenityinthe1880s:WilliamLazenby’sThePearl andTheCremorne 104 3 Slaveryobscenityattheturn-of-the-century:DollyMortonto WhiteWomenSlaves 114 4 Whippinginthetwentiethcentury:thefugitiveimage 122 5 Japanese Erotic Prints and Late Nineteenth-Century Obscenity 125 1 ThetrafficinJapaneseeroticprints 126 2 AubreyBeardsley’slibidinalline:Japonisme,ArtNouveau,and obscenity 129 vii viii Contents 3 Japaneseprostitution: AmorousAdventuresofaJapanese GentlemantoYoshiwara:TheNightlessCity 162 Coda:TheObscenityoftheReal 169 Notes 173 Bibliography 208 Index 227 List of Figures 1 Anonymousphotographusingphotomontage,1895–1900.By permissionoftheKinseyInstituteforResearchinSex,Gender, andReproduction,Bloomington,Indiana 17 2 Anonymousphotographofwomanwitheroticalbum,1885. BypermissionoftheKinseyInstituteforResearchinSex, Gender,andReproduction,Bloomington,Indiana 18 3 [H.Heath],[MarchofMind],[1826?].Bypermissionofthe BritishMuseum,London 25 4 ThomasRowlandson,TheHarem[after1812].Bypermissionof theBritishMuseum,London 33 5 ThomasRowlandson,ThePasha[after1812].Bypermissionof theBritishMuseum,London 34 6 J.L.Marks,SultanShamandHisSevenWives.London:Benbow, 1820.BypermissionoftheBritishMuseum,London 35 7 J. L. Marks, Cuckold Cunning**m Frighten’d at his W – f’s Caricature.London:Benbow,1820.Bypermissionofthe BritishMuseum,London 36 8 DonJuan[IsaacRobertCruikshank],TheLibelPublisherCutUp. London: J. Fairburn, 1825. By permission of the British Museum,London 43 9 Anonymous,FourSpecimensoftheReadingPublic.London: J.Fairburn,7Aug.1826.BypermissionoftheBritishMuseum, London 47 10 Anonymous,‘TheBarbarousCrueltyInflictedonaNegro’, CuriousAdventuresofCaptainStedman,DuringanExpeditionto Surinam.London:ThomasTegg[c.1805].Bypermissionofthe BritishLibrary,London 101 11 AubreyBeardsley,J’aiBaisétaBoucheIokanaan.TheStudio1 (April1863) 132 12 AubreyBeardsley,EnterHerodias,uncensoredversionforOscar Wilde,Salome.London:JohnLane,1894.Bypermissionofthe VictoriaandAlbertMuseum,London 135 13 AubreyBeardsley,TheToiletofSalomeI,originalversionfor OscarWilde,Salome.London:JohnLane,1894.Bypermission oftheVictoriaandAlbertMuseum,London 136 14 Aubrey Beardsley, The Stomach Dance for Oscar Wilde, Salome.London:JohnLane,1894.Bypermissionof HarvardUniversityArtMuseums,Cambridge, Massachusetts 137 ix
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