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homosexuality in victorian literature

Robert K. Mart, GAY STUDIES AND THE VICTORIAN PERIOD, Newsletter of the Victorian Studi Associatn of Wtern Canada, Vol. 13, No. 1 (SPRING 1987), pp. 69-76

Contents:

SEX SYMBOL: HOW ANTO BEME A GAY CO WORD THE VICTORIAN ERA

* homosexuality in victorian literature *

The 19th century ccially wnsed the genis of homosexual inti, subcultur, and polics forms that have endured to the prent day.

BEFORE STRAIGHT AND GAY

The word homosexual, wh s attendant notn of sexual inty, was ed and dissemated the last quarter of the 19th century. ” Jt as homosexualy mataed an ambiguo (and even paradoxil) posn wh Victorian culture—beg simultaneoly central and limal—so, too, is s place wh Victorian lerature and s specifilly Victorian textual endgs. Cultural and legal prohibns mean that reprentatns of explicly homosexual sir and timaci are rare wh popular, mastream fictn and poetry.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* HOMOSEXUALITY IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE

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