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A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain / Simon Goldhill.
LIBRA DA562 .G65 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldhill, Simon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benson family.
- Benson, Edward White, 1829-1896.
- Benson, Edward White.
- Benson, Mary, 1842-1918.
- Benson, Mary.
- Benson, Arthur Christopher, 1862-1925.
- Benson, Arthur Christopher.
- Homosexuality.
- England--Intellectual life--19th century.
- England.
- Intellectual life.
- Homosexuality--England.
- England--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- 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 ...
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780226393780
- 022639378X
- OCLC:
- 944087639
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