The Forbidden Themes: Sex and Violence in the Victorian Novel
FAIN: FB-11732-73
Ellen M. Casey
University of Scranton (Scranton, PA 18510-2429)
To explore the issue of Victorian attitudes toward sexuality concentrating on the Victorian novel in order to examine the possibility that violence was substituted for overt expressions of sexuality. To make some connections between the Victorian period and our own which will enlighten our situation.