Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century

Description

Title: Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Various; edited by Michael Croland
Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2026
Format: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780486855455

Influential LGBTQ+ Works of the Nineteenth Century is a Dover Thrift anthology collecting important literary and cultural writing on gender, sexuality, identity, desire, and queer experience from the 1800s. This paperback edition brings together work by Walt Whitman, Theodore Winthrop, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Agnes Mary Frances Robinson, Oscar Wilde, and Edward Carpenter.

The selections include poetry, fiction, essays, and excerpts that helped shape later conversations around LGBTQ+ identity and rights. Featured works include Whitman’s Calamus, Le Fanu’s Carmilla, Carpenter’s Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society, and writing connected to Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray.

This edition is a useful choice for readers of classic literature, LGBTQ+ studies, queer history, literary anthologies, and nineteenth-century writing. It offers accessible historical context for understanding how writers explored themes that were often hidden, coded, or socially dangerous in their own time.