The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley

List of Figures List of Plates Acknowledgements PART I: THE TRAFFIC IN OBSCENITY Introduction An "Extensive Traffic": The Print Trade in Nineteenth-Century British Obscenity PART II: HAREMS AND LONDON'S UNDERGROUND PRINT CULTURE The Unruly Copies of Byron's Don Juan : Harems, Popular Print Culture, and The Age of Mechanical Reproduction Harem Novels: The Lustful Turk to Moslem Erotism PART III: SIR RICHARD BURTON, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS, AND ARAB SEX MANUALS "Esoteric Pornography": Sir Richard Burton's Translation of the Arabian Nights "A Race of Born Pederasts": Pederasty, The Perfumed Garden , and The Scented Garden Collecting English Obscenity: Marriage-Love and Women amongst the Arabs and Old Man Young Again PART IV: THE ENGLISH VICE AND TRANSATLANTIC SLAVERY The Prurient Gaze: The Flogged Slave Woman among British Abolitionists Slavery Obscenity in the 1880s: The Pearl and The Cremorne Slavery Obscenity at the Turn-of-the-Century: Dolly Morton to White Women Slaves Whipping in the Twentieth Century: The Fugitive Image PART V: JAPANESE EROTIC PRINTS AND OBSCENITY OF THE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE The Traffic in Japanese Erotic Prints Aubrey Beardsley's Libidinal Line: Japonisme, Art Nouveau, and Obscenity Japanese Prostitution: Amorous Adventures of a Japanese Gentleman to Yoshiwara: The Nightless City Coda: The Obscenity of the Real Notes Bibliography Index