Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century

Cocks, H G

ISBN 10: 1848850905 / ISBN 13: 9781848850903

Verlag: I B Tauris, New York, NY, USA, 2010

xxii, 262pp. Pictorial laminated light card covers. 8vo. Neat. clean, bright and tight throughout. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 040724

Inhaltsangabe:

What did the Victorians know about desire between men? Was it really 'the love that dare not speak its name'? "Nameless Offences" argues that even before Oscar Wilde and the rise of sexual science there was an open, public and concerted discussion of same-sex desire that went to the heart of Victorian notions of masculinity, civil society, class and identity. How did homosexuality come to be known as a 'secret vice', consigned to a secret place - the closet - when contemporaries regularly described its existence as widespread, threatening and even notorious? "Nameless Offences" asks where the closet came from and how the English learned to describe that which was 'nameless' and indescribable in this way. This groundbreaking book offers the definitive portrait of male homosexuality in the nineteenth century and includes many perceptive insights into what it reveals about the interaction between public and private morality which lay at the heart of Victorian England.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dr Harry Cocks is Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Manchester.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Nameless Offences: Homosexual Desire in the ...
Verlag: I B Tauris, New York, NY, USA
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Near Fine
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A