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Queering Horace Walpole.(literature of history of sexuality)

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From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Date: 20060622
Author:Haggerty, George E.

What does it mean to talk about sexuality in the eighteenth century? What can historians of sexuality accomplish without the keyhole testimonies that prove our subjects had sex with members of their own gender? Scholars often, for obvious reasons, ignore the nagging sense that such keyhole testimonies are themselves often suspect; for how many interior British rooms have such capacious keyholes, such well-placed chinks, or such useful wallpaper tears that proved to be so useful in sodomy trials or at least the versions of those trials produced for public consumption? (1) It is ...

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