Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality - 9780415153058

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Nineteenth-Century Writings on HomosexualityA Sourcebook\nAuthor(s): Chris White\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415153058, 978-0415153058\nSynopsis\nNineteenth-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.\nNineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality includes writing on:\n * trials and scandals\n * censorship and homophobia\n * cultural and personal history\n * love and friendship\n * lesbianism\n * aestheticism and decadence\n * sexual tourism and colonialism\n * cross-class desire\n * sodomy and sadomasochism.\n Containing a general introduction, section headnotes, a bibliography of primary and secondary source material, this book is e.