Background
Marcus, Steven was born on December 13, 1928 in New York City. Son of Nathan and Adeline Muriel (Gordon) Marcus.
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
( Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audie...)
Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revolutionary perspective on the underside of Victorian culture. The subjects dealt with in The Other Victorians are not only those to have been "shocking" in the Victorian period. The way these subjects were regarded--and the way our notions of the Victorians continue to change, as the efforts of contemporary scholarship restore them to their full historical dimensions--are matters today of some surprise and wonder. Making use, for the first time, of the extensive collection of Victoriana at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Marcus first examines the writings of Dr. William Acton, who may be said to represent the "official views" of sexuality held by Victorian society, and of Henry Spencer Ashbee, the first and most important bibliographer-scholar of pornography. He then turns to the most significant work of its kind from the period, the eleven-volume anonymous autobiography My Secret Life. There follows an analysis of four pornographic Victorian novels--an analysis that throws an oblique but fascinating light on the classics of Victorian literature--and a review of the odd flood of Victorian publications devoted to flagellation. The book concludes with a chapter propounding a general theory of pornography as a sociological phenomenon. With the publication of The Other Victorians, understanding of this period took a giant stride forward. Most of the writers and writings discussed by Marcus belong to Victorian sub-literature rather than to literature proper; in this way the work remains connected to a consideration of the exotic sub-literature. A brilliantly written book in its own right, this work transformed the study of the Victorian period as did no other.
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Dickens: from Pickwick to Dombey
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (A Meridian Book)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (A Meridian Book) by Steven Marcus. 1977 trade paperback published by New American Library.
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Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class
( Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of th...)
Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, has long been considered a social, political, and economic classic. The first book of its kind to study the phenomenon of urbanism and the problems of the modern city, Engels' text contains many of the ideas he was later to develop in collaboration with Karl Marx. In this book, Steven Marcus, author of the highly acclaimed The Other Victorians, applies himself to the study of Engels' book and the conditions that combined to produce it. Marcus studies the city of Manchester, centre of the first Industrial Revolution, between 1835 and 1850 when the city and its inhabitants were experiencing the first great crisis of the newly emerging industrial capitalism. He also examines Engels himself, son of a wealthy German textile manufacturer, who was sent to Manchester to complete his business education in the English cotton mills. Touching upon several disciplines, including the history of socialism, urban sociology, Marxist thought, and the history and theory of the Industrial Revolution, Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class offers a fascinating study of nineteenth-century English literature and cultural life.
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Dickens, from Pickwick to Dombey
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Pristine/mint condition.No marks. Spine uncreased. Still tight like new. 1968 First Paperback Printing. Private library. We ship daily.
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornograhy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
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Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis by Marcus, Steven (1987) Paperback
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The Other Victorians
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Medicine And Western Civilization: 1st (First) Edition
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Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis
( “An intelligent and unique collection of essays.” ―Choi...)
“An intelligent and unique collection of essays.” ―Choice Steven Marcus discusses Freud’s famous cases “Dora” and “The Rat Man,” as well as the Freud―Fliess correspondence, the Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and the evolution of Freud’s notion of the superego. Through his close reading of various of Freud’s theoretical and clinical texts, he is able to asses Freud both as an exemplary late Victorian and as a pivotal figure in the creation of modern thought and culture.
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- Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Transition from Victorian Humanism to Modernity (Originally published in 1984, this book broke new ground ...)
- Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis by Steven Marcus (1987-05-17)
- Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class by Steven Marcus (2015-09-08)
- The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus (2008-09-30)
- Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey (Reprint. Originally published: New York, N.Y.: Simon and ...)
- The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England. (1966: 3rd Edition - by Steven Marcus - The author offers ...)
Steven Marcus
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Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1961; Doctor of Hebrew Literature (honorary), Clark University, 1985.
Career
Professor of English, Columbia University, since 1966; George Delacorte professor humanities, Columbia University, since 1976; department chairman English and comparative literature, Columbia University, 1977-1980, 85-89; vice president Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, 1993-1995; dean, Columbia College, 1993-1995; director planning, National Humanities Center, 1974-1976; chairman of the executive committee board directors, National Humanities Center, 1976-1980, 96-; also board directors, National Humanities Center chairman, Lionel Trilling Seminars, 1976-1980.
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
( Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audie...)
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Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis: Studies in the Transition from Victorian Humanism to Modernity
( Originally published in 1984, this book broke new groun...)
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Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class
( Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of th...)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England.
(1966: 3rd Edition - by Steven Marcus - The author offers ...)
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth Century England (A Meridian Book)
(The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornograph...)
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Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis
( “An intelligent and unique collection of essays.” ―Choi...)
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Dickens, from Pickwick to Dombey
(Pristine/mint condition.No marks. Spine uncreased. Still ...)
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Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey
(Reprint. Originally published: New York, N.Y.: Simon and ...)
- Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis by Steven Marcus (1987-05-17)
- Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class by Steven Marcus (2015-09-08)
- The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England by Steven Marcus (2008-09-30)
- Dickens: from Pickwick to Dombey
- The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornograhy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
- Freud and the Culture of Psychoanalysis by Marcus, Steven (1987) Paperback
- The Other Victorians
- Medicine And Western Civilization: 1st (First) Edition
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The Other Victorians: A Study of Sexuality and Pornography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England
Membership
Co-director Heyman Center for the Humanities. With Army of the United States, 1954-1956. Fellow: Academy Literature Studies, American Academy Arts and Sciences (editor of the Academy).
Member: American Academy Psychoanalysis (science associate), American Psychoanalytic Association (honorary), Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (honorary), Columbia Society Fellows in Humanities (co-chairman).
Connections
Married Gertrud Lenzer, January 20, 1966. 1 son, John Nathaniel.
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American
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1961
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1985
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1974 - 1976
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1976 - 1980
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1993 - 1995
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Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1967-1968. National Humanities Center fellow, 1980-1982. Rockefeller Foundation fellow in humanities, 1980-1981. Fellow Center Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 1972-1973.Guggenheim Foundation fellow, 1967-1968. National Humanities Center fellow, 1980-1982. Rockefeller Foundation fellow in humanities, 1980-1981.
Fellow Center Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, 1972-1973.