The autobiography of a Victorian pornographer: Edward Sellon’s The Ups and Downs of Life

References

• Amigoni, David, ed. 2006. Life Writing and Victorian Culture. Aldershot: Ashgate.
   Google Scholar
• Ashbee, Henry S. 1877. Index Librorum Prohibitorum. London: privately printed.
   Google Scholar
• Best, Geoffrey et al. 1969. ‘“My Secret Life”: Theme and Variations.’ Victorian Studies 13 (2): 204–215.
   Google Scholar
• Bloch, Ivan. [1938] 1996. Sexual Life in England: Past and Present. Royston: Oracle.
   Google Scholar
• Broughton, Trev L. 1999. Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography in the Late Victorian Period. London: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Carter, Angela. 1979. The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History. New York: Penguin Books.
   Google Scholar
• Cleland, John. [1748] 1985. Fanny Hill. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Colligan, Colette. 2006. The Traffic in Obscenity from Byron to Beardsley: Sexuality and Exoticism in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Cook, Matt. 2003. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Cythera’s Hymnal, or Flakes from the Foreskin. A Collection of Songs, Poems, Nursery Rhymes, Quiddities, etc. etc. Never Before Published 1870. [false imprint] Oxford: Printed at the University Press for the Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge.
   Google Scholar
• Dau, Duc. 2014. ‘The Governess, her Body, and Thresholds in The Romance of Lust.’ Victorian Literature and Culture 42: 281–302. doi: 10.1017/S1060150313000442
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Foucault, Michel. [1978] 1998. The Will to Knowledge: The History of Sexuality Volume One. Translated by Robert Hurley. London: Penguin.
   Google Scholar
• Gagnier, Regenia. 1991. Subjectivities: A History of Self-Representation in Britain 1832–1920. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Gibson, Ian. 2002. The Erotomaniac. The Secret Life of Henry Spencer Ashbee. London: Faber.
   Google Scholar
• Hunt, Lynn, ed. 1993. The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500–1800. New York: Zone Books.
   Google Scholar
• Hyam, Ronald. 1990. Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Jennings, Hargrave. 1884. Phallicism Celestial and Terrestrial, Heathen and Christian. London: George Redway.
   Google Scholar
• Joudrey, Thomas J. 2015. ‘Penetrating Boundaries: An Ethics of Anti-perfectionism in Victorian Pornography.’ Victorian Studies 57 (3): 423–432. doi: 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.3.423
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kearney, Patrick J. 1982. A History of Erotic Literature. London: MacMillan.
   Google Scholar
• Kearney, Patrick J. 2008. ‘Five Letters from James Campbell Reddie to Henry Spencer Ashbee.’ http://scissors-and-paste.net/Reddie.html.
   Google Scholar
• Kendall, Paul M. 1965. The Art of Biography. London: George Allen and Unwin.
   Google Scholar
• King, Francis. 1971. Sexuality, Magic and Perversion. Secaucus: Citadel.
   Google Scholar
• La Rose d'Amour, or the Adventures of a Gentleman in search of Pleasure. (1880) 2009. In The Pearl: Two Erotic Tales, 159–301. London: Harper Perennial.
   Google Scholar
• Lady Pokingham or They All Do It. [1879–80] 2009. In The Pearl: Two Erotic Tales, 1–158. London: Harper Perennial.
   Google Scholar
• Lee, Ying S. 2007. Masculinity and the English Working-Class: Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction. New York: Routledge.
   Google Scholar
• Loftus, Donna. 2006. ‘The Self in Society: Middle-class Men and Autobiography.’ In Life Writing and Victorian Culture, edited by David Amigoni, 67–85. Aldershot: Ashgate.
   Google Scholar
• Lyons, Andrew P., and Harriet Lyons. 2004. Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
   Google Scholar
• Macpherson, Sandra. 2005. ‘Sex at Twickenham.’ English Literary History 72 (2): 471–493. doi: 10.1353/elh.2005.0018
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Marcus, Steven. 1966. The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson.
   Google Scholar
• McCalman, Iain. 1984. ‘Unrespectable Radicalism: Infidels and Pornography in Early Nineteenth-Century London.’ Past & Present 104: 74–110. doi: 10.1093/past/104.1.74
   Google Scholar
• McCalman, Iain. 1988. Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795–1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mudge, Bradford K. 2000. The Whore’s Story: Women, Pornography and the British Novel 1684-1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• My Secret Life. [c. 1888–1894] 2008. 11 vols. Amsterdam: n.p. http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/pdf/2674.pdf.
   Google Scholar
• Pearsall, Ronald. 1969. The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality. New York: Macmillan.
   Google Scholar
• Potter, Tiffany. 2003. ‘Genre and Cultural Disruption: Libertinism and the Early English Novel.’ ESC 29 (1–2): 171–196.
   Google Scholar
• Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. 2003. Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Sellon, Edward. 1848. Herbert Breakspear: A Legend of the Mahratta War. London: Whittaker & Co.
   Google Scholar
• Sellon, Edward. [1865] 1902. Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindus. London: privately printed.
   Google Scholar
• Sellon, Edward. 1865. The New Epicurean or The Delights of Sex. London: William Dugdale.
   Google Scholar
• Sellon, Edward. 1866. Phoebe Kissagen. London: William Dugdale.
   Google Scholar
• Sellon, Edward. [1867] 1996. The Ups and Downs of Life. Ware: Wordsworth.
   Google Scholar
• Shanafelt, Carrie. 2013. ‘Vicarious Sex and the Vulnerable Eighteenth-Century Reader.’ Literature Interpretation Theory 24 (4): 261–277. doi: 10.1080/10436928.2013.843116
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sigel, Lisa Z. 2000. ‘Name Your Pleasure: The Transformation of Sexual Language in Nineteenth-Century British Pornography.’ Journal of the History of Sexuality 9 (4): 395–419.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sigel, Lisa Z. 2002. Governing Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815–1914. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
   Google Scholar
• The Sins of the Cities of the Plain or the Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism 1881. London: privately printed.
   Google Scholar
• Starobinski, Jean. 1980. ‘The Style of Autobiography.’ In Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, edited by James Olney, 73–83. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Teleny, or the Reverse of the medal. A physiological romance of to-day 1893. London: Cosmopoli, privately printed for Leonard Smithers.
   Google Scholar
• Tosh, John. 2005. Manliness and Masculinities in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Harlow: Pearson.
   Google Scholar
• Urban, Hugh B. 2006. Magia Sexualis: Sex, Magic and Liberation in Modern Western Societies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
   Google Scholar
• Venus in India. Adventures in Hindustan. [1889] 1931. Paris: The Erotica Biblion Society.
   Google Scholar
• Virdis, Daniela F. 2015. ‘Eroticizing Female and Male Bodies: a Linguistic Investigation of a Pornographic Novel from the Victorian Magazine The Pearl.’ Porn Studies 2 (1): 19–34. doi: 10.1080/23268743.2014.984924
   Google Scholar
• Webb, Peter. 1982. ‘Victorian Erotica.’ In The Sexual Dimension in Literature, edited by Alan Bold, 90–121. London: Vision.
   Google Scholar