...Will Fisher Duke University Press 2007 The Sexual Politics of Victorian Historiographical Writing about the “Renaissance” Will Fisher The “Renaissance” and the “homosexual” are both nineteenth-century inven- tions. The historiographical concept of the Renaissance — with its...

...Katie Hindmarch-Watson Duke University Press 2007 Lois Schwich, the Female Errand Boy Narratives of Female Cross-Dressing in Late-Victorian London Katie Hindmarch-Watson On November 13, 1886, twenty-one-year-old Lois Schwich was sentenced to eight months’ hard labor...

...Morris B. Kaplan Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 WHO’S AFRAID OF JOHN SAUL? Urban Culture and the Politics of Desire in Late Victorian London Morris B. Kaplan London in the nineteenth century is a crucial site for the emergence of an ethos of individuality...

...Patrick R. O'Malley The cultural construction of Roman Catholicism in England shifted in the middle decades of the nineteenth century from being constituted as a series of acts to being understood as a subjectivity experienced as authentic interiority. Even as various British Victorian figures...

... House, 2000). David James Prickett is an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. books in brief 161 SEMITES, SODOMITES, AND THE VICTORIAN VOTE Kate Thomas Friendship’s...

...Carla Freccero Duke University Press 2007 Carla Freccero is professor of literature, feminist studies, and history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Books in Brief We “Other Victorians” Carla Freccero Between Women: Friendship, Desire...

...Jordan Victorian The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography Cruz Ariane New York : New York University Press , 2016 . xii + 317 pp. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Scott Branson Lytton Strachey's first major work, Eminent Victorians , made a revolutionary gesture by giving the lives of its famous subjects ironic treatment, atypical of the serious genre of biography. His highly stylized lives were readable, but his campiness brought critical backlash from...

... of a structure of lesbian literary and erotic practices that is useful for thinking about lesbian literary history as well as its future. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work on reparative reading and the school of queer optimism exemplified by José Esteban Muñoz’s Cruising Utopia undergird the approach to Victorian...

..., a novel which, years later and in another country, I assigned to my graduate students, who, themselves Victorian, confessed to becoming stranded partway through, unable to complete the book because of its length.1 The end of the film—like the end of the novel, as it turned out—was packed so densely...

...Jennifer DeVere Brody Duke University Press 2007 Jennifer DeVere Brody is the Weinberg College Board of Visitors Professor and associate professor of English, performance studies, and African American studies at Northwestern University. Books in Brief We “Other Victorians...

... ways, cautioning his readers that “we should bear in mind the danger of ‘reading through’ Victorian euphemisms to discover our own categories of sexual deviance” (85). He stays well clear of such dangers in the final, and perhaps most interesting, part of his own book, where he exam- ines...

... AND GAY STUDIES Marvin J. Taylor is director of the Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University. His research interests include late Victorian queer cultures, the post- Vietnam downtown New York arts scene, and the epistemology of libraries and archives...

... House, 2000). David James Prickett is an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. books in brief 161 SEMITES, SODOMITES, AND THE VICTORIAN VOTE Kate Thomas Friendship’s...

... House, 2000). David James Prickett is an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. books in brief 161 SEMITES, SODOMITES, AND THE VICTORIAN VOTE Kate Thomas Friendship’s...

... House, 2000). David James Prickett is an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. books in brief 161 SEMITES, SODOMITES, AND THE VICTORIAN VOTE Kate Thomas Friendship’s...

... House, 2000). David James Prickett is an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. books in brief 161 SEMITES, SODOMITES, AND THE VICTORIAN VOTE Kate Thomas Friendship’s...

... House, 2000). David James Prickett is an associate member of the Center for Transdisciplinary Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin. books in brief 161 SEMITES, SODOMITES, AND THE VICTORIAN VOTE Kate Thomas Friendship’s...

... in the United States and abroad. Kate Thomas is assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr College. She recently completed a manuscript on the Victorian postal system, which relates the rise of communication networks to enfranchised and sexual subjectivities. She has pub- lished articles on lesbian...

...- ers perceive as a long (sometimes, multicentury) absence. Dinshaw’s examination of asynchronous time encompasses colonialist notions of how the people of India were considered, by colonial powers of the Victorian era, to be living in a time sim- ilar to the British Middle...