more extensive and unaffected pleasure

[lotesse]

Why, when discussing eighteenth-nineteenth(twentieth-)century anti-novel rhetoric, does no one address the discursive parallels with injunctions against onanism/masturbation? (and does anyone know of a book that does? because I would totally read that book.)

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[ithiliana]

There's a book--intelllectual history? about novel reading and masturbation and women...goes to Google....I know I've read about it, just never managed to read it, ahahaha.