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