Victorians go postal -- Postal digressions : mail and sexual scandal -- "This little queen's head can't be untrue" : Trollope's postal infidelities -- A queer job for a girl : the communicative touch in Trollope, Hardy, and Lynn Linton -- All red routes : blood brotherhood and the post in Doyle, Kipling, and Stoker -- Henry James's public servant
Summary
With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, this work explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-238) and index