Disorder in the Court
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
Published on 9. July 1999
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-333-72562-7 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a trial and the public debates surrounding it. The cases range from husband or wife murder, to divorce, child marriage and public indecency. The social conflicts bring to light differing ideologies of class, gender and sexuality in the age of the "New Man", the "New Woman" and the "Third Sex".
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
notes
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 143 mm
Weight
526 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-72562-7 (9780333725627)
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George Robb | Nancy Erber
Disorder in the Court
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
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Content
Notes on Contributors - Introduction; N.Erber & G.Robb - A Public Offense Against Decency: The Trial of the Count de Germiny and the 'Moral Order' of the Third Republic; W.Peniston - Conjugality on Trial: The Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain; A.Burton - The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard; G.Robb - Did 'My Lord Gomorrah' Smile?: Homosexuality, Class and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair; M.B. Kaplan - A Shock to Marriage?: The Clitheroe Case and the Victorians; G.Frost - Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-sihcle - France; N.Albert - 'Don't Frighten the Horses': The Russell Divorce Case; A.S.Holmes - Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario; A.E.Golz - Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-sihcle France: The Case of Baron d'Adelsward Fersen and Count de Warren; N.Erber - A New Man for a New Century: Dr.Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity; J.English Early - 'The Magistrates are Men': Working-class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates Court to the Divorce Court After 1895; G.Savage