The Sexual Revolution in Modern English Literature
The study of its literature is a useful guide to the degree of sexual security existing in a culture. ' When a future historian comes to treat of the social taboos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a fourteen-volume life-work, his theories of the existence of an enormous secret langu...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1973, 1973
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1973 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- One: The Victorian Ethos and Edwardian Repercussions
- I. The Victorian Sex-Ethic
- II. Thomas Hardy and the Sexual Theme
- III. H. G. Wells and the New Sexual Morality
- Two: The Sexual Revolution and the Modern Drama
- IV. Bernard Shaw and the New Love-Ethic
- V. Somerset Maugham on Women and Love
- VI. Noel Coward and the Love-Ethic of the Jazz Age
- Three: Eros in England
- VII. Eros and Agape in James Joyce
- VIII. D. H. Lawrence and the Religion of Sex
- IX. Aldous Huxley: Sex and Salvation
- Four: The English Literary Scene: from the Thirties to the Present
- X. The New Sex Morality
- XI. Sex and Sadism
- XII. The Subversion of Sexual Morality
- Five: Finale
- XIII. Concluding Remarks