Nameless Offences - Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century

Informationen zum Autor Dr Harry Cocks is Research Fellow at the Department of History, University of Manchester. Klappentext 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.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 discussion of same-sex desire that went to the heart of Victorian notions of masculinity, civil society, class and identity. Zusammenfassung 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 discussion of same-sex desire that went to the heart of Victorian notions of masculinity, civil society, class and identity. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsList of maps, tables and figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Histories of the Closet?PART IProsecuting the ‘Unnatural Crime’Policing Sodomy in the Nineteenth-Century CityPART IIReading the SodomiteRespectability, Blackmail and the Transformation of ScandalPART III‘A Strange and Indescribable Feeling’: Unspeakable Desires in Late-Victorian EnglandConclusionNotesSelect BibliographyIndex...

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• Authors: H G Cocks, H. G. Cocks, H.G. Cocks, Harry Cocks, Cocks H. G.
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.11.2009
• EAN: 9781848850903
• ISBN: 978-1-84885-090-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 214 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Social and Cultural History Today
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History of Ideas, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics