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Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality: A Sourcebook
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.