Before Wilde
Subtitle: sex between men in Britain's age of reform
By: Charles Upchurch.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780520258532
Subjects: Gay men -- Great Britain -- History; Gay men -- Great Britain -- Social conditions; Men -- Sexual behavior -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Homosexuality -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Sex -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Families and sex between men; title: Class, masculinity, and spaces; title: Law and reform in the 1820s; title: Public men : the metropolitan police; title: Unnatural-assault reporting in the London press; title: Patterns within the changes; title: Conclusion: Character and medicine.