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[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.)

Comments

[ithiliana]

As someone who lives with a medieval historian, I know that a whole slew of people in academia tend to think that everything starts in the "early modern period" and know sod all about the Middle Ages. I don't know Laqueur's training, but I do know the book has had a lot of critical criticism (I keep telling myself I should read it, I just never get around to it--am much more drawn by the other book I mentioned above)