Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photographs
"Pleasures Takencouldn’t have been more aptly titled. A lusciously written study of luscious images, it invokes smell, touch, disequilibrium, the heft of labor and the weight of loss, to show how much more than spectatorial are the wrenching and stirring relations around Victorian photographs."—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author ofFat Art, Thin ArtandTendencies