Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook

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Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook

Author(s): Chris White

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publication Date: 4 Mar. 1999
  • Edition: 1st
  • Language: English
  • Print length: 392 pages
  • ISBN-10: 0415153069
  • ISBN-13: 9780415153065

Book Description

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality is a comprehensive collection which provides, for the first time in one volume, many texts unavailable outside specialised academic libraries. Chris White has brought together a wide range of primary source material, including prose, poetry, fiction, history and polemic from 1810 to 1914.
Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality 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.
Containing a general introduction, section headnotes, a bibliography of primary and secondary source material, this book is extraordinarily well researched.

Editorial Reviews

Review

‘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

About the Author

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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