A very queer family indeed : sex, religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Publication Information
Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
Physical Description
337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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 ...