{"product_id":"white-stains-the-literary-remains-of-george-archibald-bishop-a-neuropath-of-the-second-empire-9780987095664","title":"White Stains The Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop A Neuropath of the Second Empire","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Birchgrove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50331309637906,"sku":"9780987095664","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bae334d8-3584-4413-a11c-f5a50b6c1a45.jpg?v=1727813250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/white-stains-the-literary-remains-of-george-archibald-bishop-a-neuropath-of-the-second-empire-9780987095664","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}