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The Collector's Edition of Victorian Erotica (Paperback)

by Major LaCaritilie (Editor) "Nature makes her own laws, peculiar and particular, without stopping to bother about the idiosyncrasies of civilization or the virtues of society ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 608 pages
  • Publisher: Magic Carpet Books; 1st Magic Carpet Inc. Ed edition (1 Dec 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 097553310X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0975533109
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 408,122 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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No-one can read the thousands of erotic books and pamphlets that the English reading public were offered in the 19th Century. This anthology hopes to stimulate readers into exploring further erotic adventures by offering a selection of Victorian pleasures. This anthology of delicious and deviant love combines bawdy, obscene, salacious and humorous stories where themes of sado-masochism, incest and flagellation recur, sometimes shocking but often affectionate.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Erotic but certainly not Victorian, 27 Nov 2006
A collection of supposedly Victorian erotica, including a submissive female secretary (a decidedly 20th century fetish, since Victorian secretaries would almost without exception have been male) and one in which our heroine wears 'skimpy panties' - hardly Victorian underwear, and described in very twentieth century language again. There are other places where language, props or storyline betray a distinctly non-Victorian authorial tone. Methinks the Major is having us on slightly. The collection is indeed rather erotic, with a 'something for everyone' approach - but I suspect it should have a disclaimer describing it as 'in the style of Victorian erotica'.
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3.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Collection, But Flawed., 29 Jan 2009
By Clifford (Weymouth, Dorset, UK) - See all my reviews
The combined Victorian and Edwardian eras saw a veritable explosion in the availability of erotic literature, work which fulfilled both educational and titillatory functions at a time of public disapproval of such matters. The standard of the writing and publication was highly variable, probably a result of the lack of open scrutiny accorded to individual items, and together with the quantity of material, this has led to its current availability being patchy. There has also been a modern trend, in some ways matching the original one, for the better writings to be reissued under false identification and attribution. This volume offers a wealth of original material from the Victorian (and later) periods, and it therefore plays an important part in supplementing the current provision, which is based on what seems to be a minor part of the available literature, even though this minor part may well represent the better part. It undoubtedly achieves its modern titillatory aim, although I feel it falls short on two counts. The opportunity has been missed to provide some (at least) bibliographic detail of the extracts chosen; the volume includes a mere three-page description of the contents by `Dr Major La Caritilie'. And there are some items here that are definitely not Victorian; the extract from the 1960s `Darling', normally ascribed to `Harriet Daimler' being perhaps the most glaring anachronism. A useful, interesting book, but with shortcomings.
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