１９世紀の同性愛的欲望 Nameless Offences : Homosexual Desire in the 19th Century (Social and Cultural History Today)

Cocks, H. G.

I.B. Tauris（2009/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 288 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781848850903
• DDC分類 306.766094109034

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Shows how the homosexual 'closet' was created and yet was both hidden and rejected by English sources for long periods of the 19th century.
"Social and Cultural History Today"

Full Description

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.

Contents

Contents

List of maps, tables and figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction: Histories of the Closet?

PART I
Prosecuting the 'Unnatural Crime'
Policing Sodomy in the Nineteenth-Century City

PART II
Reading the Sodomite
Respectability, Blackmail and the Transformation of Scandal

PART III
'A Strange and Indescribable Feeling': Unspeakable Desires in Late-Victorian England

Conclusion

Notes
Select Bibliography
Index