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Whether the Victorian era makes you think of corsets and chastity belts or clandestine decadence in the city streets, questions of sex and sexuality continue to permeate our understanding of the time. We've collected a few histories considering what it must have been like (and a few imaginings of what it might have been like) to be a man or a woman, gay or straight, or anything else -- and Victorian to boot. So sit back, and read of England as it was (or might have been) during the nineteenth century...
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Dale Chase What if Henry James wrote erotic stories? The result might very well be The Company He Keeps: Victorian Gentlemen's Erotica, even if he'd never admit it. | Sarah Waters * The Orange Prize short-listed, Booker Prize short-listed, critically adored, third novel from Sarah Waters - reissued in with a stunning new jacket |
Sarah Waters * Sarah Water's wonderfully lush, sensuous and bawdy debut novel set in the music halls of the late 19th century - reissued with a stunning new jacket | Jonathan Kemp Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld. |
Neil McKenna McKenna argues that our view of Oscar Wilde is determined by Victorian sentimentality. He reveals his relationship with Lord Douglas, and tells of Wilde's last days in Paris. The biography... | Sandra M. Gilbert; Susan Gubar In this work of feminist literary criticism the authors explore the works of many major 19th-century women writers. They chart a tangible desire expressed for freedom from the restraints of... |
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. Working from texts of European and American writers, this... | Deborah Lutz A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London. Delivery: To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | £19.99 | £13.99 | 30% |  Despatched in 2 business days. |   Add to Basket | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | £19.99 | £16.99 | 15% |  Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | | | | Currently unavailable | Currently unavailable |
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Sheila Rowbotham Challenging many of the values and conceits of Western civilization, the gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late 19th... | Marcus, Sharon; Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment... |
H.G. Cocks What did the Victorians know about desire between men? This title argues that even before Oscar Wilde and the rise of sexual science there was an open, public and concerted... | Matthew Sweet Suppose that everything we think we know about 'The Victorians' is wrong? What if they were much more fun than we ever suspected? The author shows us that many of... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | | Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | From | £4.86 | | In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
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| U. C. Knoepflmacher Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as "Through the Looking Glass", lurks the spectre of an intense gender debate about the very nature of childhood. The author... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | | Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | From | £9.73 | | In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
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Kathryn Gleadle An assessment of 19th-century British women that provides students with an in depth understanding of the key historiographical debates and issues, placing particular emphasis upon revisionist research. The book stresses... Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | | Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | From | £18.35 | | In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
| Michel Faber A new edition of Michel Faber's bestselling blockbuster about a 19th century London prostitute Delivery:To home, business or free to our stores. Click for more info. | | | | Available through Foyles Online Marketplace only | Currently out of stock | Click & Collect:Order now to collect from 11am tomorrow. In stock items only. Click for more info. | | | | Currently out of stock in all stores. | Stores - out of stock | New & Used:Our marketplace sellers will deliver to your chosen address. Click for more info. | From | £2.17 | | In stock at one or more sellers. | Buy - Select Seller |
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