Description: SEXUAL HERETICS Male Homosexuality in English Literature 1850-1900 An Anthology Selected with an Introduction by BRIAN READE . This is the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION 1971. Mr Reade was Deputy Keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum and still today is recalled as an avid researcher on a wide variety of aspects of English Literature, History and the Arts, e.g., Edward Lear, Aubrey Beardsley, Ballet Design, Regency Antiques, etc. In SEXUAL HERETICS, he has collected a wide variety of works representative of male homosexuality during the Victorian Era. From the poetry of Tennyson and Housman to excerpts from the rarely-spoken-of pornographic novel TELENY. This notorious novel was published anonymously but widely believed to have been "touched up" by Oscar Wilde. Wilde is also discussed in the book along with Lord Alfred Douglas. Many other notable and notorious names are represented here -- men who were part of the discreet homosexual culture during this era which READE refers to as the "vintage years". SEXUAL HERETICS is illustrated with numerous contemporaneous drawings paintings and photographs. Taken as a whole, this books shines a revealing light on a dark and mysterious corner of the Victorian Age. Book is bound in purple cloth and decorated on spine in gilt. Lower left corner stain in purple on front pastedown. (Please see photographs.)
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Features: FIRST American Edition
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Item Width: 6 1/2"
Number of Pages: 459
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Topic: Gender Studies
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Country/Region of Manufacture: Great Britain
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Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 1971
Book Title: SEXUAL HERETICS Male Homosexuality in English Lit
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: BRIAN READE
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Coward-McCann Inc. NY
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Genre: Sexuality
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Type: Non-Fiction
