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Postal pleasures : sex, scandal, and Victorian letters

With readings of novels by Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Henry James, and others, this work explores the relationship between illicit sex and the postal service in Victorian Britain
Print Book, English, ©2012
Oxford University Press, New York, ©2012
History
xii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780199730919, 9780199731169, 0199730911, 0199731160
710045091
Victorians go postal
Postal digressions : mail and sexual scandal
"This little queen's head can't be untrue" : Trollope's postal infidelities
A queer job for a girl : the communicative touch in Trollope, Hardy, and Lynn Linton
All red routes : blood brotherhood and the post in Doyle, Kipling, and Stoker
Henry James's public servant