Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality

<p><em>Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality</em> 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.<br><em>Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality</em> includes writing on:<br> * trials and scandals<br> * censorship and homophobia<br> * cultural and personal history<br> * love and friendship<br> * lesbianism<br> * aestheticism and decadence<br> * sexual tourism and colonialism<br> * cross-class desire<br> * sodomy and sadomasochism.<br> Containing a general introduction section headnotes a bibliography of primary and secondary source material this book is extraordinarily well researched.</p>