Postal pleasures [electronic resource] : sex, scandal, and Victorian letters / Kate Thomas.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 251 p.) : illISBN:- 9780199918461 (ebook) :
- 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
- 820.9355 23
- PR915 .T37 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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