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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99357-2respectability” is a dominant theme in the social history of nineteenth- century England. The upper classes’ permissive attitude toward propriety was cleverly expressed by the Edwardian actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell’s famous comment: “It doesn’t matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don’t

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99357-2s,” followed in smaller type by the tantalizing nuggets: “Orgies and Saturnalia,” and “Monsieur d’Ardouzet [.] Arrested Last Night.” That same day another daily, ., relegated the story to its crime news column deep inside the paper, but it was equally quick to underline salacious aspects of the case

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England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a trial and the public debates surrounding it. The cases range from husband or wife murder, to divorce, child marriage and public indecency. The social conflicts bring to light differing ideologies of class, gender and sexuality in the age of th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99357-2 on homosexuals as scapegoats for the political, social, or economic problems of the times.. The sensational trial of the Count de Germiny for “a public offense against decency” in 1876 is one such example of the authorities’ attack on homosexuality as a means of shoring up the social order.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-99357-2ing the point of origin in the discourses of nineteenth-century science and medicine, especially in the shift from sodomy as a category of prohibited behavior to the construction of the homosexual as a distinctive kind of person.