Victorian Discourse in Volumes
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Victorian Discourse in Volumes In the Puritan world, the hand of God or the temptation of the devil were to be found anywhere and everywhere. For the Victorians, the readings for this week seem to point less to an obsession with sin than to an obsession with words and language.
Victorian Discourse in Volumes
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Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness I found this week’s readings on the intimacies of 19th century female relationships to be very interesting. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg’s essay provided a very well-rounded look at the dynamics between women and how their close relationships were formed within societies. It makes sense that sexual-segregation would influence women to become […]
Female Love and Myths of Passionlessness
Tags: 19th century, birth control, passionlessness, sexual segregation, sexuality, Victorians, women
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