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Disorder in the Court

Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. George Robb

    1. William Paterson University, New Jersey, United States

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  2. Nancy Erber

    1. LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, United States

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Nancy Erber, George Robb
    Pages 1-11

  3. A Public Offense against Decency: the Trial of the Count de Germiny and the “Moral Order” of the Third Republic

    • William Peniston
    Pages 12-32

  4. Conjugality on Trial: the Rukhmabai Case and the Debate on Indian Child-Marriage in Late-Victorian Britain

    • Antoinette Burton
    Pages 33-56

  5. The English Dreyfus Case: Florence Maybrick and the Sexual Double-Standard

    • George Robb
    Pages 57-77

  6. Did “My Lord Gomorrah” Smile?: Homosexuality, Class, and Prostitution in the Cleveland Street Affair

    • Morris B. Kaplan
    Pages 78-99

  7. A Shock to Marriage?: the Clitheroe Case and the Victorians

    • Ginger Frost
    Pages 100-118

  8. Books on Trial: Prosecutions for Representing Sapphism in fin-de-siècle France

    • Nicole Albert
    Pages 119-139

  9. “Don’t Frighten the Horses”: the Russell Divorce Case

    • Ann Sumner Holmes
    Pages 140-163

  10. Murder Most Foul: Spousal Homicides in Ontario, 1870–1915

    • Annalee E. Golz
    Pages 164-185

  11. Queer Follies: Effeminacy and Aestheticism in fin-de-siècle France, the Case of Baron d’Adelsward Fersen and Count de Warren

    • Nancy Erber
    Pages 186-208

  12. A New Man for a New Century: Dr. Crippen and the Principles of Masculinity

    • Julie English Early
    Pages 209-230

  13. “The Magistrates are Men”: Working-Class Marital Conflict and Appeals from the Magistrates’ Court to the Divorce Court after 1895

    • Gail Savage
    Pages 231-249

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 250-253
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This collection of eleven essays by historians and literary scholars examines the role of the state in regulating sexual morality in France, England and the British Empire. Each essay focuses on a trial and the public debates surrounding it. The cases range from husband or wife murder, to divorce, child marriage and public indecency. The social conflicts bring to light differing ideologies of class, gender and sexuality in the age of the 'New Man', the 'New Woman' and the 'Third Sex'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • William Paterson University, New Jersey, United States

    George Robb

  • LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York, United States

    Nancy Erber

About the editors

NICOLE ALBERT ANTOINETTE BURTON Teacher, History Department and the Women's Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University JULIE ENGLISH EARLY Associate Professor of English, University of Alabama, Huntsville GINGER FROST Teacher, British History, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama ANNALEE GOLZ Teacher, Canadian History, University of Victoria ANN SUMNER HOLMES Assistant Dean, Honors College, Louisiana State University MORRIS KAPLAN Philosophy Department, Purchase College, the State University of New York WILLIAM PENISTON Librarian, Newark Museum GAIL SAVAGE Teacher, History, St. Mary's College of Maryland

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