Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic

by Laura Helen Marks

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252083857
• ISBN13: 9780252083853
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"