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Author_Simon Joyce
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- ISBN 9780198980650
- Weight: 472g
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 28 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the Victorian era's thinking about gender and sexual identity.
We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those
for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present LGBTQ+ coalition.
LGBT Victorians reconsiders the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period.
Simon Joyce holds a BA and MA from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Buffalo. He is a Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he teaches Victorian and modernist literature from Britain and Ireland and LGBTQI+ Studies.
