Unspeakable : a life beyond sexual morality / Rachel Hope Cleves.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleves, Rachel Hope, 1975- author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglas, Norman, 1868-1952.

Douglas, Norman.

Child molesters--England.

Child molesters.

Authors, English--Biography.

Authors, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2020]

Summary:

The sexual exploitation of children by adults has a long, fraught history. Yet how cultures have reacted to it is shaped by a range of forces, beliefs, and norms, like any other social phenomenon. Changes in how Anglo-American culture has understood intergenerational sex can be seen with startling clarity in the life of British writer Norman Douglas (1868-1952), who was a beloved and popular author, a friend of luminaries like Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, and D.H. Lawrence, and an unrepentant and uncloseted pederast. Rachel Hope Cleves's careful study opens a window onto the social history of intergenerational sex in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing how charisma, celebrity, and contemporary standards protected Douglas from punishment - until they didn't.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Part I. George Norman Douglass

Part II. Norman Douglas

Part III. Uncle Norman

Part IV. Heraclitus

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-73367-X

OCLC:

1243311173