Böcker av Simon Joyce

LGBT Victorians explores Victorian thought around gender and sexual identity to examine how Victorians considered these identity categories to have produced and shaped each other, highlighting a range of individuals including Anne Lister, the defendants in the 1870s "Fanny and Stella" trial, Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs, and John Addington Symonds.

Takes a look at the ways that the twentieth century reacted to and reimagined its predecessor. This work considers how the Victorian inheritance has been represented in literature, politics, film, and visual culture; and the ways in which modernists and progressives have sought to differentiate themselves from an image of the Victorian.

As London became the first major city of the nineteenth century, new models of representation emerged in the journalism, poetry, fiction, and social commentary of the period. Simon Joyce argues that such writing reflected a persistent worry about the problem of crime but was never able to contain it.