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A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Title
A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain / Simon Goldhill.
Author
Goldhill, Simon
Publication
  • Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
337 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biography.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The family that wrote itself -- Sensation! -- Wooing mother -- Bringing up the subject -- Fifty ways to say I hate my father -- Tell the truth, my boy -- A map of biographical urges -- To write a life -- Women in love -- Graphomania -- Being queer -- What's in a name? -- Though wholly pure and good -- He never married -- All London is agog -- Carnal affections -- Be a man, my boy -- "It's not unusual . . ." -- The god of our fathers -- It will be worth dying -- The deeper self that can't decide -- Our father -- Secret history -- Writing the history of the church -- Building history -- Forms of worship -- Capturing the Bensons -- Not I ...
Call Number
JFE 16-13881
ISBN
  • 9780226393780
  • 022639378X
LCCN
2016007240
OCLC
944087639
Author
Goldhill, Simon, author.
Title
A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain / Simon Goldhill.
Publisher
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Chronological Term
1800-1899
Research Call Number
JFE 16-13881
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