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COMRADES IN ADVERSITY: WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH AND RICHARD BURTON

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2009

Gordon K. Booth
Gordon K. Booth*
Affiliation:
Edinburgh, Scotland
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At first sight these two eminent Victorians appear to be most incongruous travelling companions: the one a relatively austere young professor of Hebrew in the Free Church of Scotland, the other a mature, hard-swearing, short-tempered, thoroughly agnostic trouble-maker with an unconcealed penchant for oriental erotica. Both men, however, had provoked widespread controversy and were regarded in high places as “unsound.”

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Research Article
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , March 2009 , pp. 275 - 284
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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