Colligan argues that Nineteenth-century obscenity was caught up in the global cultural traffic of print technology, international trade and exoticism. She reveals that obscenity intersected majority and minority culture, searched out new print and visual media, and built commercial and fantasmatic global networks for its continuation and survival.

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'Colette Colligan's fascinating book...draws on material from all these collections, and is itself an important contribution to the historical understanding of obscenity, as well as, more locally, to the famously vexed subject of the sexual mores of the Victorians.' - Gowan Dawson, Archives (British Records Association)

'A book with great value for helping us to understand obscenity's complex role in modernizing and globalizing nineteenth-century Britain.' - Allyson Pease, Victorian Studies

About the author

COLETTE COLLIGAN is Assistant Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. Her essays on Nineteenth-century literature and culture, print and media studies, and the history of obscenity appear in edited collections and leading scholarly journals. She is at work on a study of 'Pornography of the Real', which explores the convergence of documentary and pornographic realism in the Nineteenth-century.

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Book Title: The Traffic in Obscenity From Byron to Beardsley
Book Subtitle: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture
Authors: Colette Colligan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595859
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00343-9Published: 22 August 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59585-9Published: 22 August 2006
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 236
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction

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