Table of Contents

Eros in the Archives: An Introduction
Prologue: A Walk on the Wild Side
Part One: Sex in the City
Part Two: Love Stories
Part Three: West End Scandals
Part Four: Wilde's Time
Epilogue: "Sex-mania"
Telling Tales: Some ConclusionsAcknowledgments
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Morris Kaplan is Professor of Philosophy at Purchase College, State University of New York. He is the author of Sexual Justice: Democratic Citizenship and the Politics of Desire.

Reviews

An engaging study of sexual scandal in late-nineteenth-century England.... Kaplan revels in the engrossing detail of the legal process, the attendant publicity, and the political fallout.... He is a good storyteller and he has good stories to tell.... His is a highly entertaining, superbly written, and thought-provoking book. Scholars of homosexuality will be grateful for the mass of informative detail, but it is accessible to and deserving of a much broader readership.
*Journal of the History of Sexuality*

Kaplan makes a strong argument about the role of class and culture in the interpretation of nineteenth-century homosexuality that will engage the specialist as well as the more general reader. Sodom on the Thames is both highly readable and analytically sophisticated.
*Victorian Studies*