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A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
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- Creator
- Simon Goldhill
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226393810, 022652728X, 9780226393780, 022639378X, 022639381X
- OCLC
- ocn959428132, ocn944087639
- Includes bibliographical references.
- 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 ..