Recent books and exhibitions have shown that Victorians were not so
straitlaced about sexual matters as has been popularly assumed.
Ellen Bayuk Rosenman's engrossing and enlightening book proves that
the Victorians were extraordinarily articulate and resourceful when
it came to expressing their sexual desires. Narratives of erotic
experience were written, justified to the conservative culture, and
circulated for the pleasure of readers. Rosenman's exploration of
masculinity and femininity in Victorian sexual storytelling
includes an account of the "spermatorrhea panic" that terrified the
men of Britain, tells of Theresa Longworth's erotic revisions of
the romance plot, and takes up the exhaustive, even exhausting,
pornographic epic My Secret Life.Drawing on social history, court
cases, medical literature, popular novels, and the diaries and
letters of everyday life, Rosenman looks beyond the usual sexual
suspects homosexuals and prostitutes, for example to address a
range of pleasures that emerged from the ideological structures
meant to contain them. She asserts that, however powerful ideology
is, it does not script erotic repertoires in definitive or
predictable ways, and that individuals can find ways of evading or
easing its constraints."
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