Overview

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality collects together texts concerned with same-sex desire in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This comprehensive collection ranges widely both generically and chronologically, including prose, poetry, fiction, history and polemic from 1810 to 1914. Containing a general introduction, section headnotes, a bibliography of primary and secondary source material, and sections on The Law, Science, Love, and Sex, this book is extraordinarily well researched. Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook includes writing on: trials and scandals censorship and homophobia cultural and personal history love and friendship lesbianism aestheticism and decadence sexual tourism and colonialism cross-class desire sodomy and sadomasochism Bringing together for the first time in one volume a wide range of primary source material, this fascinating book includes many texts unavailable outside very specialised academic libraries.

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'Well-judged, economical and shrewd.' - Alan Sinfield, Gay Times 'Chris White's editorial approach is quite inspired. Instead of laying out the material chronologically, White presents along a continium based on what was sayable or not sayable about same-sex desire in the 1800s, moving from the permissable to the least.' - Lewis Gannett

... inspired.... -The Gay and Lesbian Review

... inspired.... <br>-The Gay and Lesbian Review <br>

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Chris White is lecturer in Literature at Bolton Institute. She is the co-editor with Elaine Hobby of What Lesbians Do in Books, and has published a number of essays on nineteenth-century homosexuality and lesbianism.

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