A review by upthescene
Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Lutz

2.0

Interesting topic, terrible writing. This book read as if it were Lutz's barely-passing graduate thesis. It was riddled with difficult to read and strange grammar non-conventions. (My personal favorite, referring to all characters by all of their names: eg. to Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Rossetti, Gabriel, and Dante, often on the same page). The book is also missing a point. I'm still not really sure what she was trying to prove; it was more of an account of how several artists lived. She definitely could have used an outline. I only kept reading because I wanted to see how the people she discussed contributed to later society, but that was totally missing.