Sexual Outcasts: 1750-1850

by Ian Mccormick (Editor)

Sexual Outcasts presents a wide range of texts selected to illustrate the diversity of responses to the concealed body and to the secret or forbidden sexual practices of 1750-1850. Each volume follows the means by which prohibitions and taboos were produced and circulated. The reader can therefore explore the processes that disciplined the representation of the body and the constuction of sexual outcasts.
This four-volume set presents a wide range of textual material: criminal reports; scientific and medical publications; newspaper items; sex manuals; guidebooks; speculative accounts, and case histories. The variety of sources permits a multiple perspective on the body, sexual drives, gendered psychologies and perverse behaviour across the century.

1008 pages, Hardcover

First published August 9, 2000

About the author

Ian McCormick, M.A. (St Andrews); PhD (Leeds), served as a Professor in the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton.
Most recent novel: CLASS AND CLOISTER: THE ST ANDREWS CORRESPONDENCE.
Awards and Prizes: King James VI Prize (St Andrews); Lawson Memorial Prize (St Andrews); British Academy Studentship (UK).
Published academic books/chapters in various fields: sexuality and gender studies; modern and postmodern literature; teaching and learning strategies; drama education and critical theory.
My work has been featured on the BBC (Radio and TV); in the Times Literary Supplement, The Observer, The Guardian, Time Out (London), and in academic journals.
Dr McCormick organized two major international conferences for the British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies (St John’s College, University of Oxford) and two International Community Film Festivals. He lives in Birmingham.