TY - JOUR
T1 - James Hinton and Victorian individuality
T2 - Polygamy and the sacrifice of the self
AU - Clark, Anna
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - James Hinton was a charismatic thinker who influenced the mid-Victorian concept of altruism and later sexologists such as Havelock Ellis. Secretly, he also believed that polygamy would solve the problems of sexual frustration, prostitution, and female poverty. His obsessions with polygamy are evident in five volumes of largely unpublished manuscripts found in the British Library. However, in examining the roots of Hinton's beliefs, we can see that Hinton should not be understood only as a precursor to later sexual radicalism; rather, he should be anchored in the very different context of mid-Victorian struggles over individualism in religion and culture.
AB - James Hinton was a charismatic thinker who influenced the mid-Victorian concept of altruism and later sexologists such as Havelock Ellis. Secretly, he also believed that polygamy would solve the problems of sexual frustration, prostitution, and female poverty. His obsessions with polygamy are evident in five volumes of largely unpublished manuscripts found in the British Library. However, in examining the roots of Hinton's beliefs, we can see that Hinton should not be understood only as a precursor to later sexual radicalism; rather, he should be anchored in the very different context of mid-Victorian struggles over individualism in religion and culture.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857973246&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84857973246&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2979/victorianstudies.54.1.35
DO - 10.2979/victorianstudies.54.1.35
M3 - Article
C2 - 22616126
AN - SCOPUS:84857973246
SN - 0042-5222
VL - 54
SP - 35
EP - 61
JO - Victorian Studies
JF - Victorian Studies
IS - 1
ER -