About the Author

Joseph Bristow is Professor in the Department of English in UCLA. His recent books include The Fin-de-Siècle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s (2005) and Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: the Making of a Legend (2009). He is the editor of the various edition of Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (2005), as well as editor of the Journal of Victorian Culture.

Reviews

The book... is a useful volume on the history of sexuality from the sexual typology of the late 19th century through psychoanalytic and antipsychiatric discourses, to recent feminist and queer theory debates.