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Postal pleasures : sex, scandal, and Victorian letters
- Title
- Postal pleasures : sex, scandal, and Victorian letters / Kate Thomas.
- Author
- Thomas, Katie-Louise.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR915 .T37 2012 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 251 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, this work explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain.
- Subject
- 1800-1899
- Geschichte 1840-1900
- Letter writing > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Postal service > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Scandals > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Letter writing recreations
- Homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Literature
- Homosexuality
- Letter writing
- Literature and society
- Postal service
- Scandals
- Post
- Sexualverhalten
- Englisch
- Literatur
- Roman
- Brief
- Erotik
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Victorians go postal -- Postal digressions : mail and sexual scandal -- "This little queen's head can't be untrue" : Trollope's postal infidelities -- A queer job for a girl : the communicative touch in Trollope, Hardy, and Lynn Linton -- All red routes : blood brotherhood and the post in Doyle, Kipling, and Stoker -- Henry James's public servant.
- ISBN
- 9780199730919
- 0199730911
- 9780199731169
- 0199731160
- LCCN
- 2011011838
- OCLC
- ocn710045091
- 710045091
- SCSB-14512887
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library