Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In a soft cover with black titles to spine and front and a black and white illustration to front. 364 pp. with 10 black and white illustrations. The book is in good + condition. There is generally minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover, the front bottom corner has a minor crease and the back bottom corner a larger crease, the spine is creased and the cover lightly tanned, there is a small price label to the back. The binding is tight. There is very minor bruising to the corners at the start and end of the book. There is a small label to the top corner of the ffep. Otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 913491

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The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After

Gibson, Ian

Published by See description, 1992

ISBN 10: 0715613901 ISBN 13: 9780715613900

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Seller: Lacey Books Ltd, Cirencester, United Kingdom

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 1992 Gerald Duckworth paperback edition. Light reading wear else good condition. Seller Inventory # 6K-OF4G-NIZU

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The English Vice: Beating, Sex and Shame in Victorian England and After

Ian Gibson

Published by Duckworth, 1992

ISBN 10: 0715613901 ISBN 13: 9780715613900

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Seller: killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Ireland

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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 3rd Edition. Oversized paperback, third impression, weight 674g, xii + 364pp + 20 pages of glossy black and white plates, NOT ex-library. Used condition, a good reading copy, structurally undamaged. Untanned interior with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, securely bound. Grubby marks / faint staining on several pages; grubby outer page edges. Moderate wear to page corners. Covers show rubbed edges, small grubby marks, shelfwear; creased spine. -- From the rear cover: 'Mr. Gibson documents the proliferation of sadomasochistic phenomena in England from medieval times onwards, in the family, in schools, brothels, reformatories, and in the armed forces and the colonies; and above all in the development of an enormous literature of flagellant pornography which in the Victorian period even penetrated the correspondence columns and advertisements of apparently respectable family magazines and newspapers.' [J.R. de S. Honey, Times Educational Supplement]; 'People do not change much over the centuries, as Ian Gibson points out in his splendid new book, The English Vice. For the authentic material alone, this book, which has to be the definitive book on the subject, would be valuable, but he also writes clearly and with style.' [Ronald Pearsall, Irish Press]; 'A resourceful history of flagellation in schoolroom and brother. 'English' because it 'allows the puritan to punish sexuality and enjoy it at the same time'.' [Sunday Times]; 'A worthwhile and repellently fascinating social study.' [The Scotsman]; 'A remarkably comprehensive survey.' [The Times]; 'It should command the attention of every close student of corporal punishment. it holds every promise of becoming a classic.' [Janus] -- Contents: 1. Knowledge and Warnings about Sexual Flagellation before Freud 2. Home and School Beating in Nineteenth-century England and Later 3. Eton, the Birch and Swinburne 4. Judicial, Prison, Army and Naval Flogging in Britain 5. The Flagellant Correspondence Column in 19th-century England 6. Flagellant Prostitution in Victorian England and After 7. The Flagellant Fantasy 8. Towards an Understanding of Sexual Flagellation 9. 'It Never Did Me Any Harm'; Appendices: A. French text of quotations from Rousseau's 'Confessions'; B. The use of corporal punishment in schools outside the United Kingdom (as at July 1977); C. Two flagellant poems published by Swinburne in 'The Pearl'; Bibliography; Index. Seller Inventory # 006975

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