Postal pleasures
Subtitle: sex, scandal, and Victorian letters
By: Kate Thomas
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780199730919; 9780199731169
Subjects: Scandals; Postal service; Letter writing; Literature and society; Letter writing recreations; Homosexuality; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Victorians go postal; title: Postal digressions : mail and sexual scandal; title: "This little queen's head can't be untrue" : Trollope's postal infidelities; title: A queer job for a girl : the communicative touch in Trollope, Hardy, and Lynn Linton; title: All red routes : blood brotherhood and the post in Doyle, Kipling, and Stoker; title: Henry James's public servant.