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]

Not the one I remembered--but looks good!

The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical Culture, by Diane Mason
Colette Colligan
Victorian Studies
Vol. 52, No. 2 (Winter 2010), pp. 321-322
(article consists of 2 pages)
Published by: Indiana University Press
DOI: 10.2979/VIC.2010.52.2.321
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/VIC.2010.52.2.321

[oursin]

It's more about the covert representation of masturbation/masturbating characters in literary texts (an alternative title would be Beyond Uriah Heep: the self-abuser in Victorian Literature) than reading-as-wanking.

My review of this book was the one the journal editors went 'ooops - we lost it, please resend' about.