Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality

This collection of texts is concerned with same-sex desire in the 19th and early-20th century. It ranges widely both generically and chronologically, including prose, poetry, fiction, history and polemic from 1810 to 1914.
A collection of texts concerned with same-sex desire in the 19th and early-20th century. This comprehensive collection ranges widely both generically and chronologically, including prose, poetry, fiction, history and polemic from 1810 to 1914. Containing a general introduction, section headnotes, a bibliography of primary and secondary source material, and sections on "The Law", "Science", "Love", and "Sex". It includes 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; and sodomy and sadomasochism.