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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Romantic Science and the Perversification of Sexual Pleasure

2 Historicizing Perversion: Perversity, Perversion, and the Rise of Function in the Biological Sciences

3 One Sex or Two? Nervous Bodies, Romantic Puberty, and the Natural Origins of Perverse Desires

4 The Perverse Aesthetics of Romanticism: Purposiveness with Purpose

5 Fiery Joys Perverted to Ten Commands: William Blake, the Perverse Turn, and Sexual Liberation

6 Byron, Epic Puberty, and Polymorphous Perversity

Notes

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