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Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence offers a nuanced analysis of how Victorian decadent literature engaged with sexuality and artistic beauty. Sarah Green investigates the tension between desire and restraint that characterized much of the period’s most innovative writing, arguing that aesthetic experience was fundamentally shaped by negotiations with sexual expression.
This volume contributes to Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture by providing fresh critical perspectives on canonical and lesser-known decadent texts. Green demonstrates how writers of the era used restraint as both a formal and thematic strategy, creating complex aesthetic experiences that challenged Victorian moral conventions. The study bridges literary criticism, cultural history, and aesthetic theory to illuminate the sophisticated relationship between sexuality and art in late nineteenth-century Britain.
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