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