Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic (Feminist Media Studies #21)

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Synopsis
The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian Gothic is monstrous but restrained, repressed but perverse, static but transformative, and preoccupied by gender and sexuality in both regressive and progressive ways. Laura Helen Marks investigates the contradictions and seesawing gender dynamics in Victorian-inspired adult films and looks at why pornographers persist in drawing substance and meaning from the era's Gothic tales. She focuses on the particular Victorianness that pornography prefers, and the mythologies of the Victorian era that fuel today's pornographic fantasies. In turn, she exposes what porning the Victorians shows us about pornography as a genre. A bold foray into theory and other forbidden places, Alice in Pornoland reveals how modern-day Victorian Gothic pornography constantly emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates issues of gender, sexuality, and race.
Copyright:
2018

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780252050886
Related ISBNs:
9780252083853, 9780252042140
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
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Copyrighted By:
Laura Helen Marks
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Psychology, Social Studies, Language Arts, Sociology
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