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Sexualities in victorian britain

Presents an introduction to Victorian sexualities. This book contains essays that will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of meaning that it has generated.
Print Book, English, 1996
Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1996
VII, 239 p. ; 24 cm.
9780253330666, 0253330661
1123775995
1. Introduction, by Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams 2. DinahOs Blush, MaggieOs Arm: Class, Gender, and Sexuality in George EliotOs Early Novels, by Margaret Homans 3. OVitiated AirO: The Polluted City and Female Sexuality in Dombey and Son and Bleak House, by Deborah Epstein Nord 4. Clitoridectomy, Circumcision, and the Politics of Sexual Pleasure in Mid-Victorian Britain, by Ornella Moscucci 5. Darwin and the Anthropologists: Sexual Selection and Its Discontents, by Rosemary Jann 6. Perversion, Degeneration, and the Death Drive, by Jonathan Dollimore 7. Coventry Patmore and the Womanly Mission of the Mid-Victorian Poet, by Joseph Bristow 8. Reimagining Masculinity in Victorian Criticism: Swinburne and Pater, by Tha*s E. Morgan 9. When the Soul Had Hips: Six Animadversions on Psyche and Gender in 19th-Century Poetry, by Herbert F. Tucker 10. Turn-of-the-Century Male Impersonation: Rewriting the Romance Plot, by Martha Vicinus 11. OI Am the Woman for SpiritO: A Working WomanOs Gender Transgression in Victorian London, by Camilla Townsend Index