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.