The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon is a pornographic novel by James Campbell Reddie under the pseudonym of "James Campbell" published in London (although the title page asserts Moscow) in 1881. The narrative gives a view of Victorian abortion.[1]
References
edit- ^ Sutherland, John (1990). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8047-1842-3.
Further reading
edit- Iwan Bloch, "Anthropological Studies on the Strange Sexual Practices of All Races and All Ages", Minerva Group, 2001, ISBN 0-89875-471-2, p. 171
- Alan Norman Bold, "The Sexual dimension in literature", Vision Press, 1983, ISBN 0-389-20314-9, p. 116
- Steven Marcus, "The Other Victorians: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-Century England", Transaction Publishers, 2008, ISBN 1-4128-0819-7, pp. 235–247
- Gowan Dawson, "Darwin, literature and Victorian respectability", Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture 57, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-521-87249-9, p. 128