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Erotic Discourses in History, Culture and the Arts book cover

1st Edition

Erotic Discourses in History, Culture and the Arts

Edited By Aleksandra Musiał-Pudełko, Nina Augustynowicz, Agnieszka Podruczna Copyright 2026
214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume examines the enduring entanglement of erotic desire with political, cultural, and historical change. Bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship, it explores how sex, sexuality, and eroticism both shape and are shaped by historical narratives, across diverse periods, geographies, and media. The chapters address secrecy, colonial and imperial regimes, regulation, and acts of... Read more

Introduction

Aleksandra Musiał-Pudełko, Nina Augustynowicz, and Agnieszka Podruczna

 

Part I: Secrets and the Unspeakable

 

1. Male Sexuality and Erotic Pleasure in Greek Autobiographical Discourses of the 1870s

Dimitra Vassiliadou

 

2. Infectious Corruption: Sexual Violence in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White and Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith

Justyna Jajszczok

 

Part II: Colonial Anxieties and Regimes of Desire

 

3. Seminal Debates: Masculinity, Male Fertility, and Impotence in Early Colonial New Spain (1550–1620)

Jacqueline Holler

 

4. “Dreams of Ends”: History, Sex, and Storytelling in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians

Albany Murdoch

 

5. Queer Temporalities: Mediating Desire Through the Historical Account in Postcolonial Speculative Fiction

Agnieszka Podruczna

 

Part III: Regulation and Education

 

6. Surveillance of Homosexual Priests Under the Legal and Regulatory Discourses of People’s Poland

Agnieszka Laddach

 

7. Framing Sexuality: Media Liberalization and State Oversight in Post- Independence Lithuania

Kotryna Bėčiūtė

 

8. “Margaret Thatcher Has Basically Made Me Pro-Blow Job”: Teenage Sexuality, Thatcherism, and (Post)feminism in How to Build a Girl

Nina Augustynowicz

 

9. “You and Me and History”: Queer Romance and Liberal Fantasy in Casey McQuiston’s Red, White & Royal Blue

Aleksandra Musiał-Pudełko

 

Part IV: Resistance and Celebration

 

10. Eroticism as Resistance and Subversion: The Case of the “Three Marias” and Their Book New Portuguese Letters

Ricardo Rato Rodrigues

 

11. Sense and Sexuality of the Female Body: Women’s Subversion of Patriarchy in the Studio

Lawrence Buttigieg

 

12. The Gift in Lube: Derrida, Foucault, and Fisting

Killian O’ Dwyer

Biography

Aleksandra Musiał-Pudełko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Nina Augustynowicz is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Agnieszka Podruczna is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

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