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Victorian Studies

From the May 2011 Print Edition

Have you ever noticed how obsessed the Victorians were with Queer Theory? How unstable their identities were” smeared with coal, satiated with tea? Perhaps it was due to their inordinate fondness for shifting back and forth from bloomers to breeches until one forgets what lies beneath and . . . . Continue Reading »