''The Amatory Experiences of a Surgeon'' is a pornographic novel by
James Campbell Reddie
James Campbell Reddie (26 November 1807 – 4 July 1878) was a 19th-century collector and author of pornography, who, writing as "James Campbell", worked for the publisher William Dugdale. According to Henry Spencer Ashbee, Reddie was self-taught ...
under the pseudonym of "James Campbell" published in
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
(although the title page asserts Moscow) in 1881. The narrative gives a view of Victorian
abortion
Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. An abortion that occurs without intervention is known as a miscarriage or "spontaneous abortion"; these occur in approximately 30% to 40% of pregn ...
.
References
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Iwan Bloch
Iwan Bloch (April 8, 1872 – November 21, 1922), also known as Ivan Bloch, was a German dermatologist, and psychiatrist, psychoanalyst born in Delmenhorst, Grand Ducal Oldenburg, Germany, and often called the first sexologist.
Together with M ...
, "Anthropological Studies on the Strange Sexual Practices of All Races and All Ages", Minerva Group, 2001, , p. 171
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Alan Norman Bold, "The Sexual dimension in literature", Vision Press, 1983, , p. 116
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Steven Marcus
Steven Paul Marcus (December 13, 1928 – April 25, 2018) was an American academic and literary critic who published influential psychoanalytic analyses of the novels of Charles Dickens and Victorian pornography. He was George Delacorte Professo ...
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The Other Victorians
Steven Paul Marcus (December 13, 1928 – April 25, 2018) was an American academic and literary critic who published influential psychoanalytic analyses of the novels of Charles Dickens and Victorian pornography. He was George Delacorte Professo ...
: a study of sexuality and pornography in mid-nineteenth-Century England", Transaction Publishers, 2008, , pp. 235–247
* Gowan Dawson, "Darwin, literature and Victorian respectability", ''Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture'' 57, Cambridge University Press, 2007, , p. 128
British pornography
Pornographic novels
1881 British novels
Novels about abortion
Works published under a pseudonym
Novels by James Campbell Reddie
Victorian era
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