Postal Pleasures
Sex, Scandal, and Victorian Letters
1st Edition
Published on 18. November 2011
264 pages
978-0-19-975574-5 (ISBN)
Description
With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, Postal Pleasures explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain.
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Victorians Go Postal
- 1. Postal Digressions: Mail and Sexual Scandal
- 2. "This Little Queen's Head Can't Be Untrue": Trollope's Postal Infidelities
- 3. A Queer Job for a Girl: The Communicative Touch in Trollope, Hardy, and Lynn Linton
- 4. All Red Routes: Blood Brotherhood and the Post in Doyle, Kipling, and Stoker
- 5. Postscript: Henry James's Public Servant
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
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