Outrages : sex, censorship, and the criminalization of love

Summary: "The best-selling author of Vagina, Give Me Liberty, and The End of America illuminates a dramatic buried story of gay history--how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day"--

Item details

ISBN: 9780544274020
ISBN: 0544274024
Physical Description: print
xviii, 377 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I: A gentle angel. "In memoriam Arcadie" ; "A gentle angel enter'd" ; 1855 : Leaves of grass -- II: 1857 : Outrages. Inventing the modern crime of obscenity ; The war against "filth" ; The invention of civil divorce, and of sodomy as a crime against the modern state -- III: The state regulates desire. Formative scandals ; Calamus : "Paths untrodden" ; Symonds's second scandal ; "Goblin market" : attraction and aversion ; The state seizes the female body -- IV: Love and literature driven underground. "I will go with him I love" ; Regina v. Hicklin : "to deprave and corrupt" ; Dangerous poems -- V: The laboratory of empire. Six signs : "the anus and the state" ; Criminalizing "effeminacy" : the arrests of Fanny and Stella ; "My dear sir" ; Comstock : censorship crosses the Atlantic -- VI: Counter-campaigns and resistance. The arrests of Simeon Solomon ; Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh ; "The Greek spirit" ; "Were I as free" : the secret sodomy poems -- VII: The next generation : Symonds, Whitman and Wilde. "Love at first sight" ; Pilgrimage to Camden ; The Labouchere amendment : "gross indecency" ; Prophets of modernity ; "The life-long love of comrades" ; A problem in modern ethics -- VIII: The memoirs. "As written by himself" ; "All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses" -- Afterword: Poetry as revolution.

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Symonds, John Addington 1840-1893
Homosexuality and literature Great Britain
Male homosexuality England London History 19th century
Obscenity (Law) Great Britain
Censorship Great Britain
London (England) Social life and customs 19th century
HISTORY Social History
SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Sexuality (see also PSYCHOLOGY Human Sexuality)
SOCIAL SCIENCE LGBT Studies Gay Studies
Symonds, John Addington 1840-1893
Censorship
Homosexuality and literature
Male homosexuality
Manners and customs
Obscenity (Law)
England London
Great Britain
London (England) Social life and customs

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History.

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