'Our modern delicacy' : sexual euphemism in the nineteenth-century novel

This thesis considers how nineteenthwcentury novelists employed sexual euphemism to avoid the constraints placed on them by editors and publishers, circulating libraries, and by the ' informal censorship which English readers imposed on their respectable fiction' (Ruth Bernard YeazeIl1982:...

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Main Author: Burton, Marianne
Published: University of London 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603490