Description |
xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-363) and index. |
Contents |
I. A gentle angel. "In memoriam arcadie" -- "A gentle angel enter'd" -- 1855 : leaves of grass -- II. 1857 : Outrages. Inventing the modern crime of obscenity -- The war against "filth" -- The invention of civil divorce, and of sodomy as a crime against the state -- III. The state regulates desire. Formative scandals -- Calamus : "paths untrodden" -- Symonds's second scandal -- "Goblin market" : attraction and aversion -- The state seizes the female body -- IV. Love and literature driven underground. "I will go with him I love" -- Regina v. Hicklin : "to deprave and corrupt" -- Dangerous poems -- V. The laboratory of empire. Six signs : "The anus and the state" -- Criminalizing "effeminacy" : the arrests of Fanny and Stella -- "My dear sir" -- Comstock : censorship crosses the Atlantic -- VI. Counter-campaigns and resistance. The arrests of Simeon Solomon -- Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh -- "The Greek spirit" -- "Were I as free" : the secret sodomy poems -- VII. The next generation : Symonds, Whitman, and Wilde. "Love at first sight" -- Pilgrimage to Camden -- The Labouchere Amendment : "gross indecency" -- Prophets of modernity -- "The life-long love of comrades" -- "A problem in modern ethics" -- VIII. The memoirs. "As written by himself" -- "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses" -- Epilogue -- Afterword : poetry as revolution. |
Summary |
"The best-selling author of Vagina, Give Me Liberty, and The End of America illuminates a dramatic buried story of gay history--how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day"-- Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.
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Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain.
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Male homosexuality -- England -- London -- History -- 19th century.
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Obscenity (Law) -- Great Britain.
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Censorship -- Great Britain.
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London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- LGBT Studies -- Gay Studies.
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Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893. (OCoLC)fst00053317
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Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00850568
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Homosexuality and literature. (OCoLC)fst00959818
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Male homosexuality. (OCoLC)fst01430687
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Obscenity (Law) (OCoLC)fst01042937
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
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Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Other Form: |
Online version: Wolf, Naomi, author. Outrages Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 9780544273344 (DLC) 2018059182 |
ISBN |
9780544274020 (hardcover) |
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0544274024 (hardcover) |
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