Michael Mason, who died in 2003, taught English at UCL. He is the author of the two-part study, The Making of Victorian Sexuality and The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes.
All my lifetime, until very recently, conventional wisdom has had it that there was something very peculiar about the ‘Victorian’ era. Since about 1910, its values and practices have...
‘The best-known publication date in English literature,’ says Michael Mason of 1798. But the terse, intelligent Introduction to his new edition of the Lyrical Ballads seems out to...
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