Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century WritingIan McCormick Secret Sexualities is expansive in its historical range, vast sources and scholarly research. It contains rare, unpublished, primary material, extensive critical and contextual material by the editor, and refuses to discriminate between issues of sex, sexuality and gender. |
Contents
Introduction | 13 |
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS | 49 |
The Case of John Atherton | 62 |
The Trial of Lord Duffus for Sodomy | 69 |
The Trial of William Griffin for Sodomy | 75 |
Proposals for Castrating Criminals | 83 |
A Burlesque Poem | 100 |
A Full and Genuine Narrative of the Confederacy | 106 |
Short Extracts | 114 |
REPRESENTATIONS | 117 |
SAPPHIC TEXTS | 175 |
A Spy on Mother Midnight | 212 |
A Discovery of a Very Extraordinary Nature | 234 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 249 |
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