A Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
- Contents
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1 Sensation!
2 Wooing Mother
3 Bringing Up the Subject
4 Fifty Ways to Say I Hate My Father
5 Tell the Truth, My Boy
6 A Map of Biographical Urges
7 To Write a Life
8 Women in Love
9 Graphomania
Part II: Being Queer
10 What’s in a Name?
11 Though Wholly Pure and Good
12 He Never Married
13 All London Is Agog
14 Carnal Affections
15 Be a Man, My Boy
16 “It’s Not Unusual . . .”
Part III: The God of Our Fathers
17 It Will Be Worth Dying
18 The Deeper Self That Can’t Decide
19 Our Father
20 Secret History
21 Writing the History of the Church
22 Building History
23 Forms of Worship
24 Capturing the Bensons
Part IV: Not I . . .
25 Not I . . .
Acknowledgments
History: British and Irish History
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature
Religion: Christianity
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