White Stains the Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop a Neuropath of the Second Empire - Aleister Crowley - Books - Birchgrove Press - 9780987095664 - July 18, 2011
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White Stains the Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop a Neuropath of the Second Empire

Aleister Crowley

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White Stains the Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop a Neuropath of the Second Empire

Written by magician and occultist Aleister Crowley and published clandestinely in 1898, White Stains is a collection of verse tracing the demise of a fictitious poet, George Archibald Bishop. His biography is given in the Preface. Crowley wrote White Stains as a refutation of the psychiatrist and pioneering sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing?s contention in Psychopathia Sexualis that sexual perversions are a consequence of disease. Crowley?s verse, which is modelled on Decadent and Symbolist poetry, explores a range of ostensible sexual aberrations. Excerpts from several poems appear in another clandestine classic, Raped on the Railway (c. 1899). White Stains was published by the London-based publisher Leonard Smithers. It was printed, in Amsterdam, on hand-made paper, in a limited edition of 100 copies. Many of these are supposed to have been destroyed by British customs officials in 1924. Crowley revised and extended White Stains? pseudo-biographical project in his wildly inventive black parody of literary erotica, Snowdrops from a Curate?s Garden (c. 1904). Snowdrops from a Curate?s Garden and Raped on the Railway are available from Birchgrove Press.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 18, 2011
ISBN13 9780987095664
Publishers Birchgrove Press
Pages 138
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 8 mm   ·   167 g
Language English  

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