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.

'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

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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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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