19th century erotica
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| '''Henry Spencer Ashbee''' (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900) was a [[book collector]], writer, and bibliographer, notorious for his massive, clandestine three volume bibliography of [[erotic literature]] written under the pseudonym of '''Pisanus Fraxi'''. His ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Ashbee)|Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the first of his trilogy on [[erotic literature]] was privately printed in London in 1877. He is also presumed to be the author of ''[[My Secret Life]]''. | '''Henry Spencer Ashbee''' (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900) was a [[book collector]], writer, and bibliographer, notorious for his massive, clandestine three volume bibliography of [[erotic literature]] written under the pseudonym of '''Pisanus Fraxi'''. His ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Ashbee)|Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'', the first of his trilogy on [[erotic literature]] was privately printed in London in 1877. He is also presumed to be the author of ''[[My Secret Life]]''. | ||
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| + | [[Frederick Hankey]] ([[1823]], Corfu, Greece - [[1882]]) was a British [[bibliophile]]. Retiring from the military in 1840, Hankey moves to [[Paris]] where he indulges in his passion of [[erotic literature]], particularly of the [[sadistic]] variety. [[Ashbee]] compared him to [[Marquis de Sade]] "without the intellect". Hankey supplied [[sadomasochism|sado-masochistic]] erotica to [[Swinburne]], [[Richard Francis Burton|Richard Burton]] and [[Richard Monckton Milnes]]. | ||
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The early part of the nineteenth century was noted by an abscence of both erotic art and erotic literature, generally ascribed to the Neoclassical prudery. In se, eroticism in the 19th century starts in the second half of the century.
On a technical level, the century saw the further proliferation of mass produced texts and illustrations. Added to this mix was the new medium of photography, which begot erotic photography shortly afterwards and which led to developments such as erotic postcards.
Some artists both belong to the 18th and 19th centuries. Such cases are Casanova (1725 – 1798, but his work was not published until the 19th C), Marquis de Sade (1740 – 1814) Henry Fuseli (1741 - 1825), Goya (1746 – 1828) and Canova (1757 - 1822). Some art movements were only discovered in the West during the 19th century such as Japanese erotic prints.
On a general moral level, the century was scandalized when Naturalist Darwin implied that humans were descendant from primates. Richard Francis Burton continues the work of sexual anthropologists.
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England
Madames
Theresa Berkley (died September 1836) was a 19th century British dominatrix who ran a brothel in at 28 Charlotte Street, just to the north of Soho, London specialising in flagellation. She is notable as the inventor of the Berkley Horse, a piece of BDSM apparatus.
First collectors
Henry Spencer Ashbee (21 April 1834 – 29 July 1900) was a book collector, writer, and bibliographer, notorious for his massive, clandestine three volume bibliography of erotic literature written under the pseudonym of Pisanus Fraxi. His Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the first of his trilogy on erotic literature was privately printed in London in 1877. He is also presumed to be the author of My Secret Life.
Frederick Hankey (1823, Corfu, Greece - 1882) was a British bibliophile. Retiring from the military in 1840, Hankey moves to Paris where he indulges in his passion of erotic literature, particularly of the sadistic variety. Ashbee compared him to Marquis de Sade "without the intellect". Hankey supplied sado-masochistic erotica to Swinburne, Richard Burton and Richard Monckton Milnes.
Literature
Towards modern sexology
Painting
France
- 19th century French erotica, French can-can, Moulin Rouge, 19th century Paris, 19th century French literature, modern art
Key figures include Charles Baudelaire, Alfred Binet, Gustave Courbet, Achille Devéria, Théophile Gautier, Jules Gay, Edouard Manet, Octave Mirbeau, Alfred de Musset, Félicien Rops, Bénedict-Auguste Morel
Painting
- Ingres
- Félicien Rops
- Edouard Manet
- Gustave Courbet
- Achille Devéria
- Eugène le Poitevin
- Félix Vallotton
Literature
Printers of erotica in the late 1800s: Jules Gay, Henry Kistemaeckers, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, Isidore Liseux
- Gamiani
- Alcide Bonneau's translations
- Charles Carrington
- Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal
- Théophile Gautier
- Octave Mirbeau
- Alfred de Musset
- Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Pierre Louÿs
- Alfred Binet
- French academic art
Germany
Towards modern sexology
Literature
Hungary
Japan
The history of Japanese erotica goes back but was imported in Europe during the 19th century.
Discovery of Shunga in France, the Goncourts
- "Jeudi 2 avril — Après un morceau sur les erotiques japonais, ainsi qu'après tous les morceaux que je travaille un peu, il me semble ressentir comme une déperdition érébrale, comme un vide laissé dans ma tête par quelque chose qui en serait sorti, et aurait été pompé par le papier de la copie. --1891, Journal des Goncourt
- “Rodin, who is full of fawnishness, asks to see my Japanese erotics, and is full of admiration before the women’s drooping heads, the broken lines of their necks, the rigid extensions of arms, the contractions of feet, all the voluptuous and frenetic reality of coitus, all the sculptural twining of bodies melted and interlocked in the spasm of pleasure.” --Journal des Goncourt
