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Title: |
A Marriage Below Zero |
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| By (author): |
Alan Dale Edited by: Richard A. Kaye |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551119838 : 9781551119830 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
275 |
| Weight: |
.300 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - December 2017 |
| List Price: |
25.75 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| A Marriage Below Zero is the first novel in English to explicitly explore the subject of male homosexuality. Written by a British émigré to America, the New York theater critic Alfred J. Cohen, under the pseudonym of â Alan Dale,â this first-person narrative is told by a young Englishwoman, Elsie Bouverie, who gradually discovers that her new husband, Arthur Ravener, is romantically involved with another man. Denounced on publication (â a saturnalia in which the most monstrous forms of human vice exhibit themselves shamelessly,â wrote one reviewer), the novel was published during the public exposure of a London homosexual brothel frequented by upper-class men and telegraph boys. A Marriage Below Zero reflected late-nineteenth-century fears and anxieties about homosexuality, womenâ s position in marriage, and the threat that seemingly new, illicit forms of desire posed to marriageable women and to the Victorian family. This Broadview edition includes excerpts from the eraâ s pro-homosexual tracts, scientific and legal documents, contemporary feminist commentary on the new â dandyism,â and newspaper accounts of late-Victorian same-sex scandals. Highlights of the volume include excerpts from Charles Dickensâ s 1836 account of his visit to Newgate Prison, where he witnessed the last two men in Britain executed for sodomy, George Bernard Shawâ s 1889 unpublished letter attacking the social purity movementâ s legislation against homosexual men, and a never-before-reprinted 1898 article from Reynoldsâ s Newspaper, â Sex Mania,â that warned of an increasing number of homosexual men choosing to enter marriages as a cover for an illicit life. |
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