5 Essential Resources on Fin de Siecle Sexuality

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Want to learn more about sexuality at the turn of the 19th century? Here is a brief list of insightful texts/resources you might find helpful:

1. The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle by Kelley Hurley.
2. Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle by Elaine Showalter.
3. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
4. “Sexual Identity at the Fin de Siecle” in The Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siecle, edited by Gail Marshall.
5. “Sexology” in The Fin de Siecle: A Reader in Cultural History c. 1880-1900, edited by Sally Ledger and Roger Luckhurst.