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What the Victorians Knew About Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

James R. Kincaid
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“Victorian Learning on Sex”: nearly every term in this sequence baffles me. I am friendly with “on,” but the others, especially in company with one another, are alien. It is a pitiful thing for a grown-up to admit that he is befuddled by the term “sex,” but I also do not know what “Victorian learning” is or why we are interested in it.

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Research Article
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 16 , Spring 1988 , pp. 91 - 99
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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