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Simon Joyce, "LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books in Critical Theory

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Chapter: Victorian Man's Struggle with Homosexuality

This chapter discusses a Victorian man's struggle with his homosexual desires and attempts to reconcile them with societal expectations. It explores his physical and mental breakdowns due to repression, surgeries to suppress his urges, and his eventual shift in understanding his sexuality.

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