Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction

by William A. Cohen and William A. Cohen

Book Overview

Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages--and never his its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. Whether discussing George Eliot's lesbian readers, Anthony Trollope's whorish heroines, or Charles Dickens's masturbating characters, William A. Cohen's study explodes the decorum of mainstream nineteenth-century fiction. By viewing this fiction alongside the most alarming public scandals of the day,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822318482
• ISBN13: 9780822318484
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"