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Never has the Victorian novel appeared so perverse as it does in these pages - and never has its perversity seemed so fundamental to its accomplishment. By viewing this fiction alongside the most alarming public scandals of the day, Cohen exposes both the scandalousness of this literature and its sexiness.
In narratives ranging from Great Expectations to the Boulton and Park sodomy scandal of 1870-71, from Eliot's and Trollope's novels about scandalous women to Oscar Wilde's writing and his trials for homosexuality. Cohen shows how, in each instance, sexuality appears couched in coded terms. He identifies an assortment of cunning narrative techniques used to insinuate sex into Victorian writing, demonstrating that even as such narratives air the scandalous subject, they emphasize its unspeakable nature.
Written with an eye toward the sex scandals that still whet the appetites of consumers of news and novels, this work is suggestive about our own modes of imagining sexuality today and how we arrived at them.
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History, Scandals, Literature and society, History and criticism, Scandals in literature, English fiction, Sex in literature, Homosexuality and literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Great britain, history, victoria, 1837-1901, Sex scandalsPlaces
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Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction
2012, Duke University Press
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Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction
1996, Duke University Press
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Sex scandal: the private parts of Victorian fiction
1996, Duke University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-249) and index.
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