Pornografia no fim do século

This study examines the marginalized space of this subliterary genre and contextualizes Gallis' fin-de-siècle writing in view of the hyper-moral indicatives of the bourgeois milieu, placing it in relation to the controversial relationship of European Realism to contemporary moral norms. Maria Helena Santana reviews the topics of Gallis' work, such as homosexuality, virginity, adultery, prostitution, eroticism through the ages, hyper-sexualized women, promiscuity and decadence. She concludes that the popularity of these works, which were intensely read for over three decades, was due not to the author's literary talent but to the lack of competition, and constituted at that time a new commercial literary genre

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