"The Secret Vice: Masturbation in Victorian Fiction and Medical
Culture" provides a unique consideration of writings on self-abuse
in the long nineteenth century. The book examines the discourse on
masturbation in medical works by English, Continental and American
practitioners and demonstrates the influence and impact of these
writings, not only on Victorian pornography but also in the
creation of fictional characters by canonical authors such as Bram
Stoker, J. S. Le Fanu, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde.
The book also features the first detailed and balanced study of
the largely overlooked literature on masturbation as it pertains to
women in clinical and popular medical works aimed at the female
reader. Mason concludes with a consideration of the way the
distinctly Victorian discourse on masturbation has persisted into
the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries with particular
reference to Willy Russell's tragic-comic novel, "The Wrong Boy"
(2000) and to the construction of 'Victorian Dad, ' a character
featured in the adult comic, "Viz,"
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