ISBN:
9781403934314
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.7/09/036
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Disorder in the Court -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Public Offense against Decency: the Trial of the Count de Germiny and the "Moral Order" of the Third Republic -- 3 Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain -- 4 The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard -- 5 Did "My Lord Gomorrah" Smile?: Homosexuality, Class, and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair -- 6 A Shock to Marriage?: the Clitheroe Case and the Victorians -- 7 Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-siècle France -- 8 "Don't Frighten the Horses": the Russell Divorce Case -- 9 Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario, 1870-1915 -- 10 Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-siècle France, the Case of Baron d'Adelsward Fersen and Count de Warren -- 11 A New Man for a New Century: Dr. Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity -- 12 "The Magistrates are Men": Working-Class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates' Court to the Divorce Court after 1895 -- Index.
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