The titular Austrian town with a creepily gothic name seems the very bedrock of “civilised ... novel of a young woman’s ...

Maligned, misconstrued and I suspect, little read, the Marquis de Sade remains not only one of the great moralists of the eighteenth century, but also the prototypical exponent of sexual psychology.

The nether world, the underground, has been a space of curiosity, myth and imagination, whether cast as Hell or as a site of ...