Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Understandings -- Part Two. Early Nineteenth-Century Changes -- Part Three. Implications -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary
This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era-changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more-Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertain
