Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality

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.