Outrages: sex, censorship and the criminalization of love

A gentle angel

"In memoriam arcadie"

"A gentle angel enter'd"

1855 : leaves of grass

Inventing the modern crime of obscenity

The war against "filth"

Civil divorce and the invention of sodomy as a crime against the state

Formative scandals

Calamus : "paths untrodden"

Symonds' second scandal

"Goblin market" : attraction and aversion

The state seizes the female body

Love and literature driven underground

"I will go with him I love"

Regina v. Hicklin : "to deprave and corrupt"

Dangerous poems

The anus and the state

Criminalizing "effeminacy" : the arrests of Fanny and Stella

"My constant companion"

Comstock : censorship crosses the Atlantic

Counter-campaigns and resistance

The arrests of Simeon Solomon

Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh

"The Greek spirit"

"Were I as free" : the secret sodomy poems

Braveries

Pilgrimage to Camden

The Labouchere Amendment : "gross indecency"

Prophets of modernity

"The life-long love of comrades"

"A problem in modern ethics"

"As written by himself"

Epilogue : afterlives.