LGBT Victorians

Simon Joyce, Cloud Professor of English, College of William and Mary

My new book, LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archive, was published October 25th, 2022 by Oxford University Press! I'll use this site to post material about the book, published excerpts, and talks I'll be giving in connection with its publication.

The Cover!

For more information on the book, including a Table of Contents, go to OUP's page here.

Publication has been held up by supply-chain issues, as has been the case with many books in the pipeline. Now it's finally available (yay), the first chapter is free to read via OUP Academic. Also, if anyone wants to save money on an expensive hardcover, you can order online at www.oup.com and use the code AAFLYG6 to get a 30% discount!!

(n.b. this is an updated version of the previous code, which apparently didn't work).

Publications

LGBT Victorians builds upon a couple of published essays you can read: "Two Women Walk Into a Theatre Bathroom: The Fanny and Stella Trial as Trans Narrative" (part of a 2018 cluster on "Trans Victorians" in Victorian Review); and "The Perverse Presentism of Rainbow Plaques: Memorializing Anne Lister" (December 2019 issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts).

Here's one for the future: I have an essay on "Queer Theories of the 1890s" forthcoming as part of an edited collection, Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1890s (ed. Kristin Mahoney and Dustin Friedman) that's forthcoming from Cambridge UP.

Talks/Blogs

OUP is currently featuring the book as part of its Women's History Month marketing campaign.
The News feed for William and Mary (where I work) featured the book and an interview with me on its site, accessible here.
I also have a blog post about the book accessible at OUPblog.com
Here's a blogpost I published for Shepherd.com called "The Best Books to Show that Trans People Have Always Existed."

And here's a blogpost I wrote for the "Trans Victorians" issue of Victorian Review.