Tag: Victorian erotica
Victorian Vice
We're pleased to announce the publication of VICTORIAN VICE, a new anthology featuring excerpts from the Classics of Passion series. It includes selections from some of the Victorian era's most notorious works, such as the infamous underground journal The Pearl; Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's startling novel Venus in Furs; "The New Pleasure" by Pierre Louÿs; as well as anonymous texts that became scandalous sensations.
Victorian scholar Lawrence Hamilton has compiled this connoisseur's sampler of literature's "forbidden pleasures" — over two hundred pages of naughty nostalgia.
Anthology of Forbidden Pleasures
Edited by Lawrence Hamilton
New Urge Editions
240 pp., trade paper
Available worldwide on Amazon
BACKLIST BEAUTIES: Hidden Gems
The infamous Victorian monthly magazine…
…THE PEARL was published in London from July 1879 to December 1880 and was subsequently shut down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature. Each issue was devoted to explicit erotic stories, sex in high society, incest and flagellation, interspersed with ribald parodies, poems and limericks. This selection of the best of THE PEARL—over 330 pages— is drawn from its original 18 issues and provides a fascinating look at the secret obsessions behind the Puritan's mask. Step inside and enjoy a raunchy romp through the Victorian underground.
The Best of The Pearl, A Journal of Facetiae & Voluptuous Reading
Selected by William Hamilton
New Urge / Classics of Passion Series
$14.95; Trade paperback, 5.06″ x 7.81″. 334 pp.
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Sister Carrie Has Arrived!
"When Sara White boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of the clothes she was wearing, a small blue suitcase, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse. Now she stood stark naked in front of twenty other spellbound young women, and two men fully conscious."
Theodore Dreiser meets the Marquis de Sade (and other pornographic writers) in Tom Bussmann's innovative new novel. Here the author seamlessly melds texts to form a compelling narrative of, among other things, Victorian lust.
Bussmann's wicked little novel has several tricks up its sleeve. Using Dreiser as narrator, his tale steers a candid autobiography into the surreal fast lane—where explicit hyperbole is common in forbidden Victorian lit. Yet the story also manages to hint at the author's personal reading habits and reveals an abiding fascination with St. Louis and the American west.
Sister Carrie Came is an incendiary work of erotic semiotics.
The infamous Victorian monthly magazine The Pearl was published in London from July 1879 to December 1880 and was subsequently shut down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature. Each issue was devoted to explicit erotic stories, sex in high society, incest and flagellation, interspersed with ribald parodies, poems and naughty limericks. This selection of the best of The Pearl—over 330 pages!— is drawn from all of its original 18 issues and provides a fascinating look at the secret obsessions behind the Puritan's mask. Step inside and enjoy a raunchy romp through the Victorian underground.
from the New Urge "Classics of Passion" series
HIDDEN GEMS: THE BEST OF THE PEARL, A JOURNAL OF FACETIAE AND VOLUPTUOUS READING
Selected and with an introduction by William Hamilton
334 pp., trade paperback, $14.95