Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook

ISBN-13: 9780415153065 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 392 str.

Chris White

Opis

A collection of texts concerned with same-sex desire in the 19th and early-20th 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. It 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; and sodomy and sadomasochism.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

The Vere Street brothel case, 1810, Oscar Wilde, 'The Disciple', 1905, Oscar Wilde, 'Quia multum amavi', 1881, Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 20 February 1837, Havelock Ellis from 'My Life', 1916, Aleister Crowley, from White Stains, 1898, Aleister Crowley from The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 1929.

O autorze

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.