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110 works

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    Masculine desire : the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism / by Richard Dellamora.

    | Richard Dellamora | Date: [1990]
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    Sexuality and the social body in the nineteenth century / edited by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur.

    | Date: 1986
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    The rhetoric of sexuality and the literature of the French Renaissance / Lawrence D. Kritzman.

    | Lawrence Kritzman | Date: 1991
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    Bad logic : reasoning about desire in the Victorian novel / Daniel Wright.

    | Wright, Daniel, 1983- | Date: [2018]
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    The garden of Priapus : sexuality and aggression in Roman humor / Amy Richlin.

    | Amy Richlin | Date: [1983]
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History, 19th Century
Ancient
Sexual Behavior
Gender identity in literature
Medieval
Literature - English
Women in literature
16th-17th centuries
Human Body - in literature
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