Postal pleasures : sex, scandal, and Victorian letters /

With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, this work explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thomas, Katie-Louise
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford [UK] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:	Letter writing > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Postal service > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Scandals > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Letter writing recreations. Homosexuality > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. Scandales > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. Jeux épistolaires. Homosexualité > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Homosexuality Letter writing Letter writing recreations Literature and society Postal service Scandals Great Britain 1800-1899 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Victorians go postal
Postal digressions : mail and sexual scandal
"This little queen's head can't be untrue" : Trollope's postal infidelities
A queer job for a girl : the communicative touch in Trollope, Hardy, and Lynn Linton
All red routes : blood brotherhood and the post in Doyle, Kipling, and Stoker
Henry James's public servant.