Sexual continence in the late nineteenth-century aesthetic tradition: Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, George Moore

<p>This thesis contends that the idea of productive sexual continence – that is, abstinence from sexual activity understood as a constructive practice – significantly shaped a branch of thought within and around the British Aesthetic Movement of the late nineteenth century. Recent critical wor...

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Main Author: Green, S
Other Authors: Evangelista, S
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2017
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