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| Author | Rachel Hope Cleves |
|---|---|
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Publication date | 2020 |
| ISBN | 978-0226733531 |
Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality is a 2020 biography of British writer Norman Douglas (1868-1952) written by American historian Rachel Hope Cleves.[1][2] It focuses on Douglas's pedophilia, stating, "In 1923, when he was fifty-four years old, the writer Norman Douglas boasted that he'd had sex with eleven hundred virgins", both boys and girls. "By present standards he was a monster. During his lifetime he was considered a great man," even though "[e]veryone" "knew about his sexual life.... He was a central figure in literary circles all the same".[3] Unspeakable examines the change in attitudes toward pedophilia.
References
[edit]- ↑ Lewis, Brian (2022). "Review of Unspeakable: A Life beyond Sexual Morality". Journal of the History of Sexuality. 31 (2): 260–262. ISSN 1043-4070.
- ↑ Ponzio, Alessio. Review of Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality, by Rachel Hope Cleves. Canadian Journal of History, vol. 56 no. 2, 2021, p. 209-211. Project MUSE.
- ↑ Unspeakable, p. 1.