Umfang:
xviii, 377 Seiten :
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Illustrationen.
ISBN:
9780349004099
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9780349004082
Inhalt:
"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"--
Anmerkung:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 343-363
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A gentle angel -- "In memoriam arcadie" -- "A gentle angel enter'd" -- 1855 : leaves of grass -- 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 -- The state regulates desire -- Formative scandals -- Calamus : "paths untrodden" -- Symonds's second scandal -- "Goblin market" : attraction and aversion -- The state seizes the female body -- Love and literature driven underground -- "I will go with him I love" -- Regina v. Hicklin : "to deprave and corrupt" -- Dangerous poems -- 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- The memoirs -- "As written by himself" -- "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses"
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Soziologie
Schlagwort(e):
Perversion
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Zensur
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Literatur
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Englisch
Mehr zum Autor:
Wolf, Naomi, 1962-,
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