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Author Thomas, Katie-Louise

Title Postal pleasures : sex, scandal, and Victorian letters / Kate Thomas
Published Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 251 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Letter writing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Postal service -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Scandals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Letter writing recreations.
Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Homosexuality
Letter writing
Letter writing recreations
Literature and society
Postal service
Scandals
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199731169
0199731160
9780199730919
0199730911