[This summer, Temporary Culture will make available the entire text of Wendy Walker’s beautiful and dangerous book, SEXUAL STEALING (2021), a work whose timeliness is only emphasized by recent developments in the world. This is the second of seven weekly instalments.]
Read the second week here:
https://temporary-culture.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Sexual_Stealing_week_2.pdf
SEXUAL STEALING is an interrogation of the Gothic, slavery, and sexual exploitation. Where the authors of the first Gothic novels set their tales in worlds safely distant in time and space from the conventions of late eighteenth-century England, Wendy Walker probes the obsessions and anxieties underlying these works, and dramatizes a tale of forcible taking, the brutal exercise of wealth and power, and the revolution that follows.
SEXUAL STEALING was published on 1 September 2021 in an edition of 125 copies signed by the author. ISBN13 978-0-9961359-5-5.
Book design by Jerry Kelly. With color and black and white illustrations throughout, pictorial endsheets after a watercolor by J. B. C. Maurice. 192 pages, 7 x 10 inches, bound in red brillianta cloth with letterpress spine label. ISBN 09961359-5-2 ISBN13 978-0-9961359-5-5.
Price $200.00 (overseas add $40.00 for postage).
https://temporary-culture.com/books/sexual-stealing/#310750
E-BOOK (pdf format): ISBN13 978-0-9961359-9-3.
Book design by Jerry Kelly. With color and black and white illustrations throughout, 192 pages. Price $15.00. Distributed by WEIGHTLESS BOOKS.
Order here: https://weightlessbooks.com/sexual-stealing/
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