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A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldhill, Simon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Benson family.
Benson, Edward White, > 1829-1896.
Benson, Mary, > 1842-1918.
Benson, Arthur Christopher, > 1862-1925.
England > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Homosexuality > England.
England > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The family that wrote itself
  • Sensation!
  • Wooing mother
  • Bringing up the subject
  • Fifty ways to say I hate my father
  • Tell the truth, my boy
  • A map of biographical urges
  • To write a life
  • Women in love
  • Graphomania
  • Being queer
  • What's in a name?
  • Though wholly pure and good
  • He never married
  • All London is agog
  • Carnal affections
  • Be a man, my boy
  • "It's not unusual . . ."
  • The god of our fathers
  • It will be worth dying
  • The deeper self that can't decide
  • Our father
  • Secret history
  • Writing the history of the church
  • Building history
  • Forms of worship
  • Capturing the Bensons
  • Not I ...