{"product_id":"alice-in-pornoland-laura-helen-marks-9780252042140","title":"Alice in Pornoland: Hardcore Encounters with the Victorian Gothic","description":"The unquenchable thirst of Dracula. The animal lust of Mr. Hyde. The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice. Victorian literature--with its overtones of prudishness, respectability, and Old World hypocrisy--belies a subverted eroticism. The Victorian Gothic is monstrous but restrained, repressed but perverse, static but transformative, and preoccupied by gender and sexuality in both regressive and progressive ways. \u003cp\u003eLaura Helen Marks investigates the contradictions and seesawing gender dynamics in Victorian-inspired adult films and looks at why pornographers persist in drawing substance and meaning from the era's Gothic tales. She focuses on the particular Victorianness that pornography prefers, and the mythologies of the Victorian era that fuel today's pornographic fantasies. In turn, she exposes what porning the Victorians shows us about pornography as a genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bold foray into theory and other forbidden places, \u003ci\u003eAlice in Pornoland\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how modern-day Victorian Gothic pornography constantly emphasizes, navigates, transgresses, and renegotiates issues of gender, sexuality, and race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laura Helen Marks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 025204214X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252042140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/17\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Laura Helen Marks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086446866687,"sku":"9780252042140","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_65f352ee-0731-4845-a81a-b60dd522aa0e.jpg?v=1769094722","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/alice-in-pornoland-laura-helen-marks-9780252042140","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}