Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film, 1850-1950 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-century Writing and Culture)

Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.