Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexualityis 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 Homosexualityincludes 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.The Vere Street brothel case, 1810, Oscar Wilde, 'The Disciple', 1905, Oscar Wilde, 'Quia multum amavi', 1881, Charlotte Bronteto Ellen Nussey, 20 February 1837, Havelock Ellisfrom 'My Life', 1916, Aleister Crowley, from White Stains, 1898, Aleister Crowleyfrom The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, 1929.
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