Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle

7 best books like Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siecle (Elaine Showalter): Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Young Goodman Brown, Lolly Willowes, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century, The Shrinking of Treehorn, The Mousewife, Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Author	Anne Fadiman
ISBN	0374527229

Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...

Young Goodman Brown

Author	Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN	1557423628

Such a wonderfully (and eerily) subversive story of a man who sees what lies behind the virtuous facade. A classic "dark romance," it's got all the hallmarks of another kind of classic: that of the "hero cycle" (to use Joseph Campbell's famous phrase), where the hero has to leave society to gain wisdom,...

Lolly Willowes

Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN	0940322161

This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.

I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...

Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

Author	Graham Robb
ISBN	0393326497

The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America. Graham Robb, brilliant biographer of Balzac,...

The Shrinking of Treehorn

Author	Florence Parry Heide
ISBN	0823401898

"If you want to pretend you're shrinking, that's all right," said Treehorn's mother, "as long as you don't do it at the table." But Treehorn wasn't pretending. He really was shrinking.

Hilarious complications result as he becomes more minuscule by the moment. Treehorn is a bit downhearted...

The Mousewife

Author	Rumer Godden
ISBN	0333344847

Day in and day out the dutiful mousewife works alongside her mousehusband. The house of Miss Barbara Wilkinson, where the Mouses make their home, is a nice house and the mousewife is for the most part happy with her lot—and yet she yearns for something more. But what? Her husband, for one, can’t imagine....

Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005

Author	Phil Baines
ISBN	0141024232

"Ever-since the creation of the first Penguin paperbacks in 1935, their jackets have become a constantly evolving part of Britain's culture and design history." By looking back at seventy years of Penguin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of British publishing, book-cover design...