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Simon Joyce holds a BA and MA from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Buffalo. He is a Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he teaches Victorian and modernist literature from Britain and Ireland and LGBTQI+ Studies.
This is a book to be reckoned with, one of the most important to be written in British LGBT or, indeed, Queer history in recent years. Scholars, advocates for trans rights, gender-critical feminists, and culture warriors may not learn much from the Victorians themselves about sexuality and gender, but they would certainly benefit enormously from engaging with this rich, nuanced, and deeply humane study. * Brian Lewis, Journal of British Studies * The book nevertheless remains a really important intervention and a foundation for further thinking not only about the B in historical perspective, but also about the recent odd interregnum Joyce identifies during which gender and sexuality were figured apart in discourse and politics. * Matt Cook, Victorian Studies * The book offers creative, elegant readings of its materials, but what most impressed me was its generative approach and strenuous commitment to disentangling so many of the knots that persist and can frustrate our scholarly forms and methods. * Rae Greiner, Prose Studies *
