Victorian Sexual Dissidence

by Richard Dellamora

Book Overview

Recent critical and historical work on the late-Victorian period has furnished a vocabulary for discussing gender and sexuality. These popular terms include categories such as homo/hetero, patriarchal/feminist, and masculine/effeminate. This collection exploits this framework--while refining and resisting it in places--to show how certain Victorians imagined difference in ways that continue to challenge us today.

One essay, for example, traces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226142272
• ISBN13: 9780226142272
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"