The victorians elevated the home and heteronormative family life to an almost secular religion yet alongside the middle class domestic ideal were other families many of which existed in the literature of the time queer victorian families curious relations in literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or queer families. Note 5 retrouvez queer victorian families curious relations in literature routledge studies in nineteenth century literature 2015 02 18 et des millions de livres en stock sur amazonfr achetez neuf ou doccasion. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books media journals databases government documents and more. Queer victorian families curious relations in literature is chiefly concerned with these atypical or queer families this collection serves as a corrective against limited definitions of family and is a timely addition to victorian studies interdisciplinary in nature the collection opens up new possibilities for uncovering submerged . Taking michael fields queer identity as a given tracy olverson uses the relation between bradley and cooper to underscore the point that queer people in the nineteenth century were not necessarily marginalized that in fact they were always an integral part of the family unit katharine and edith olverson writes were inextricably and immediately involved with their immediate family