근대 영국에서의 위계화된 남성 섹슈얼리티와 ＂홀로 저지르는 죄악＂ (Hierarchized Male Sexuality in Modern England and "Solitary Vice")

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초록

This paper examines the discourse of masturbation in modern England and
aims to re-draw the map of male sexuality related to such issues as nation,
empire, family, and economy. It argues that the discourse of masturbation in
modern England reflects national anxieties for the future of empire and an economic
concern for unproductive sexual behavior, which were the main factors
to transform masturbation into “solitary vice.”
The anxieties about empire and British dominance were constituted as the
core of the anti-masturbation discourse on the boys. The imperial destiny was
regarded to depend on the protection of the middle- and upper-class boys from
the harmful psychological and physiological effects of masturbation represented
in Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” In the case of a single male,
the concern for masturbation is constructed as a concern about economy, family,
and human solidarity. As seen in Eliot’s Silas Marner, the act of masturbation
was condemned as the fulfillment of illegitimate sexual desire outside the
familial sphere and a commercial economy, and thus without the possibility of
human community. Silas Marner and Meredith’s The Ordeal of Richard
Feverel show the ways of reconstituting sexual others as normalized subjects:
Boys were forced to be asexual through the regime of surveillance; and a single
male was required to enroll in a remedial course on familial respectability.

영어초록

This paper examines the discourse of masturbation in modern England and
aims to re-draw the map of male sexuality related to such issues as nation,
empire, family, and economy. It argues that the discourse of masturbation in
modern England reflects national anxieties for the future of empire and an economic
concern for unproductive sexual behavior, which were the main factors
to transform masturbation into “solitary vice.”
The anxieties about empire and British dominance were constituted as the
core of the anti-masturbation discourse on the boys. The imperial destiny was
regarded to depend on the protection of the middle- and upper-class boys from
the harmful psychological and physiological effects of masturbation represented
in Lawrence’s “The Rocking-Horse Winner.” In the case of a single male,
the concern for masturbation is constructed as a concern about economy, family,
and human solidarity. As seen in Eliot’s Silas Marner, the act of masturbation
was condemned as the fulfillment of illegitimate sexual desire outside the
familial sphere and a commercial economy, and thus without the possibility of
human community. Silas Marner and Meredith’s The Ordeal of Richard
Feverel show the ways of reconstituting sexual others as normalized subjects:
Boys were forced to be asexual through the regime of surveillance; and a single
male was required to enroll in a remedial course on familial respectability.

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