Class Blog for English 436W -- Topics in Literature of Transition -- at Simon Fraser University
Monday, May 12, 2008
Edwardian Eros
The point made in lecture regarding the Edwardian reserve in sexual matters being more eros than prudery is illustrated well by a National Lampoon cover from 1981 which represents our own Age's anti-Edwardian--that is, unreserved--eros as creating sexual dis-satisfaction.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes.
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