The secret vice by Diane Mason

Author:Diane Mason [Mason, Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Psychology, Human Sexuality, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, History
ISBN: 9781847797087
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2013-07-19T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 Oscar Wilde and Others [attrib.], Teleny (London: Gay Men’s Press, 1986).

2 William A. Cohen, Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996), p. 210.

3 Alan Sinfield, The Wilde Century: Effeminacy, Oscar Wilde and the Queer Moment (London: Cassell, 1994), p. 18.

4 Ibid., p. 18. Sinfield makes the point that the novel Teleny, ‘exhibits a same-sex subculture around the dandy aristocrat Briancourt, and an outdoor cruising ground, but the middle-class Des Grieux has initially no idea of such things’ (p. 17).

5 Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley (London: Penguin, 1990), p. 43. The article Foucault refers to is Carl Westphal’s work on ‘contrary sexual sensations’ published in the journal Archiv für Neurologie (1870).

6 A facsimile title page of the first edition of Teleny, published by Cosmopoli in 1893 can be found in: Teleny: A Story of a Forbidden Relationship (London: Icon Books, 1966), p. 5.

7 In the preceding two chapters I have already considered the influence of tubercular pathology in the construction of Lady Beatrice Pockingham, eponymous heroine of an erotic novella published in The Pearl (1879), as well as the depiction of ailing and phthisical prostitutes in The Pretty Women of Paris (1883).

8 Vern L. Bullough and Martha Voght, ‘Homosexuality and Its Confusion with the “Secret Sin” in Pre-Freudian America’, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 28 (1973), pp. 143–55, at p. 145, cf. Rudi C. Bleys, The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behaviour outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination 1750–1918 (London: Cassell, 1996), p. 126.

9 Norman Conolly, ‘Sexual Perversion’, in D. Hack Tuke (ed.), A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, 2 vols (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1892), Vol. 2, p. 1157, my emphasis. In his writing on ‘Auto-Eroticism’, Havelock Ellis asserts that ‘“Onanism” is largely used [as a term for masturbation], especially in France, and some writers even include all forms of homosexual connection under this name’. See: Havelock Ellis, ‘Auto-Erotism: A Psychological Study’, Alienist and Neurologist, 19 (1898), pp. 260–99, at p. 261.

10 Alan Hunt, ‘The Great Masturbation Panic and the Discourses of Moral Regulation in nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 8/4 (1998), pp. 575–615, at p. 576. Interesting though Hunt’s argument is, I contend that the ‘target audience’ for ‘antimasturbation panic’ literature extended far beyond ‘middle- and upper-class teenage males’ at boarding school. In Chapter 2 particularly, I considered the plethora of antimasturbation literature aimed at women. Moreover, Colin Buckle argues that many such texts for men were targeted at, and read by, men working in clerical occupations. See: Colin Buckle, ‘“The Defence Set Up by the Male Kind”: Male Masturbatory Pathology Versus Safer Sex in Early Victorian England’, in Nickianne Moody and Julia Hallam (eds), Medical Fictions (Liverpool: MCCA, 1998), pp. 188–200.

11 Hunt, ‘The Great Masturbation Panic’, p. 605.

12 Ibid., p. 605.

13 Anon., Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1995 [1893]), p. 33. All subsequent references are to this edition and will be included in parentheses in the main body of the text.

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