Download or read book Romantic Friendship in Victorian Literature written by Carolyn Oulton and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn Oulton considers same-sex romantic friendships between men and women in novels and poetry by authors such as Dickens, Tennyson, Disraeli, Charlotte Brontë, and Braddon, while also tracing developments in attitudes from mid-century to the fin-de-siécle revealed in conduct manuals, periodicals, and religious treatises. Her book is a persuasive challenge to those who view mid-Victorian England, existing in a state of blissful pre-Freudian innocence, as unproblematically accommodating of passionate same-sex relationships.