On the Margins - The Pornographic and Erotic Imagination
Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess (1833) Alfred de Musset Seduction (1908 but re-published in 2003) Anonymous Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller Erotic Comics: A Graphic History (2008) Alice Kominsky-Crumb Shameful Duties (Probably 1970s but re-published in 2017) Susan Saraband Gamiani is a somewhat Sadean quasi-Gothic erotic novel of the 1830s which has been attributed, although not certainly, to Alfred De Musset and which even reached the hands of Edith Wharton no less. However, you would not know any of this from my Edition, a second-hand copy of its inclusion in the Erotic Prints Society's 'Scarlet Library' which has no introduction, notes or bibiliography. What that Edition does have is excellent erotic illustrations by Vania Zouravliov. That is why I am happy to refer to it here while suggesting you find an edition with more background information. As for the story, it is a tale of extreme and destructive erotic passion with the standard issue refer