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• Love and Language: A Study of the Classical French Moralist Writers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1977), by Louise K. Horowitz (PDF at Ohio State)
• Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1993), by Amanda Anderson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Untrodden Fields of Anthropology: Observations on the Esoteric Manners and Customs of Semi-Civilized Peoples, Being a Record of Thirty Years' Experience in Asia, Africa, America and Oceania (second edition, 2 volumes; New York: Privately re-issued, American Anthropoligical Society, ca. 1898), by Jacobus X, ed. by Charles Carrington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sex Morality: Past, Present, and Future (second edition, 1919), by William J. Robinson, Leo Jacobi, James Peter Warbasse, Edwin C. Walker, James F. Morton, Bernard Simon Talmey, and Maude Glasgow (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Hands Around (Reigen): A Cycle of Ten Dialogues (New York: Privately printed for subscribers, 1920), by Arthur Schnitzler, trans. by F. L. Glaser and L. D. Edwards (Gutenberg text)
• Reigen: Zehn Dialoge (third edition, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: Wiener Verlag, 1903), by Arthur Schnitzler (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Adelaide of Brunswick (Washington: Scarecrow Press, 1954), by marquis de Sade, trans. by Hobart Ryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way of a Virgin (London: Brovan Society, 1922), ed. by L. Brovan and C. Brovan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Way of a Man with a Maid (from a 1908 edition) (RTF at archive.org)

• Sexualities in Victorian Britain (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1996), ed. by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) (literal English version; Manchester: Privately printed for Viscount J. Smithson and friends, 1884), by Friedrich Karl Forberg (Gutenberg text)

• The Plague of Lust: Being a History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity, and Including Detailed Investigations into the Cult of Venus (2 volumes, translated from the sixth unabridged German edition by an Oxford M.A.; Paris: C. Carrington, 1901), by Julius Rosenbaum
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• "First Contacts" in Polynesia: The Samoan Case (1722-1848); Western Misunderstandings about Sexuality and Divinity (2008), by Serge Tcherkézoff (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Gilbert H. Herdt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Manual of Classical Erotology (De Figuris Veneris) (literal English version; Manchester: Privately printed for Viscount J. Smithson and friends, 1884), by Friedrich Karl Forberg (Gutenberg text)

• AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use (1989), by National Research Council Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences, ed. by Charles F. Turner, Heather G. Miller, and Lincoln E. Moses (page images with commentary at NAP)

• An Address Delivered by the Hon. Mrs. Welby to the Married Women of Newton, on the First Thursday in Lent, 1872 (printed for private circulation only; London: Metchim and Son, 1872), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address Delivered to Married Women, by a Squire's Wife (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1872), by Victoria Welby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Morality and Public Life in a Time of Change (Bulgarian philosophical studies, I; Washington: Paideia Press and the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1994), ed. by Vassil Prodanov and Asen Davidov (multiple formats at Google)

• The Prisoners of St.-Lazare (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1872), ed. by Pauline de Grandpré, trans. by Mrs. E. M. McCarthy
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA

• We're (Nearly) All Victims Now! How Political Correctness is Undermining Our Liberal Culture (c2006), by David G. Green (PDF at Civitas)
• Deliverance from Public Dangers: A Solemn Call for a National Reformation, Set Forth in a Serious and Compassionate Address to the Inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland (London: Printed for the author, 1747), by A Sincere Lover of His Country (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Heir of Redclyffe, by Charlotte M. Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• Tempted London: Young Men (New York: A. C. Armstrong and Son, c1889) (HTML at victorianlondon.org)
• The Seven Curses of London, by James Greenwood (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• The Midnight Spy: or, A View of the Transactions of London and Westminster From the Hours of Ten in the Evening, Till Five in the Morning, Exhibiting a Great Variety of Scenes in High and Low Life (London: Printed for J. Cooke, 1766), by John Cleland (page images at HathiTrust)

• Moral, Legal and Political Values in Romanian Culture, ed. by Mihaela Czobor-Lupp and J. Stefan Lupp (multiple formats at Google; may be labeled differently on cover page)

• Moral Communities: The Culture of Class Relations in the Russian Printing Industry, 1867-1907 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Mark Steinberg (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fractious Nation? Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2003), ed. by Jonathan Rieder and Stephen Steinlight (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country, by Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)
• The Low Value Set Upon Human Life in the United States, by Henry A. Boardman (page images at MOA)

• The National Purity Congress: Its Papers, Addresses, Portraits (New York: The American Purity Alliance, 1896), ed. by Aaron M. Powell (frame-dependent page images at Harvard)

• American Family Association Journal, by American Family Association (partial serial archives)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

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