Description
This Broadview edition includes excerpts from the era's pro-homosexual tracts, scientific and legal documents, contemporary feminist commentary on the new "dandyism," and newspaper accounts of late-Victorian same-sex scandals. Highlights of the volume include excerpts from Charles Dickens's 1836 account of his visit to Newgate Prison, where he witnessed the last two men in Britain executed for sodomy, George Bernard Shaw's 1889 unpublished letter attacking the social purity movement's legislation against homosexual men, and a never-before reprinted 1898 article from Reynolds Magazine, "Sex Mania," that warned of an increasing number of homosexual men choosing to enter marriages as a cover for an illicit life.
About the Author
Richard A. Kaye is Associate Professor of English at Hunter College and in the PhD Program in English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Reviews
"A Marriage Below Zero is an invaluable edition of the first novel about homosexuality in English, edited by Richard Kaye, who rediscovered the 1889 text. Kaye's erudite and entertaining introduction puts it in the context of the late-Victorian sensation novel, a doubly-closeted writer, and the social history of male same-sex relationships, plus a scandalous divorce trial. A fascinating selection of legal, literary, and psychological materials rounds off this splendid seminar in one volume." - Elaine Showalter, Professor Emerita, Princeton University
"The Broadview Edition is excellent ... For anyone with an interest in Victorian gender studies, this is the go-to edition." - Times Literary Supplement
Book Information
ISBN 9781551119830
Author Alan Dale
Format Paperback
Page Count 275
Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
Publisher Broadview Press Ltd
Weight(grams) 300g