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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A very queer family indeed

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

944087639

Responsibility statement

Simon Goldhill

Sub title

sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain

Table Of 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 ..

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