Sexualities in Victorian Britain
Published on 22. December 1996
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-253-33066-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book promises to lay to rest, once and for all, the early 20th-century truism that Victorians' primary relationship to sexuality turned on repression - Mary L. Poovey, Johns Hopkins University. An introduction to Victorian sexualities and a survey of current critical methods, these essays will energize reflection on the complexity of human sexuality and on the many different arrays of meaning that it has generated. Contributors are James Eli Adams, Joseph Bristow, Jonathan Dollimore, Margaret Homans, Rosemary Jann, Andrew H. Miller, Thas E. Morgan, Ornella Moscucci, Deborah Epstein Nord, Camilla Townsend, Herbert F. Tucker, and Martha Vicinus.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 b&w photos
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33066-6 (9780253330666)
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Persons
ANDREW H. MILLER is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University and a co-editor of Victorian Studies. His essays on Victorian literature and cultural history have appeared in Yale Journal of Criticism, Cultural Critique, PMLA, and elsewhere. He is author of Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative. JAMES ELI ADAMS is Associate Professor of English and Victorian Studies at Indiana University and a co-editor of Victorian Studies. He is author of Dandies and Desert Saints: Styles of Victorian Masculinity.
Content
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