title: Watching Hannah: Sex, Horror and Bodily De-Formation in Victorian England (Picturing History)
author:  Barry Reay 
description: <div><B>Barry Reay</B> is Professor of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His books include <I>Popular Cultures in England, 1550&#8211;1750</I> (1998).</div>
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  “Hugh?” she murmured in a daze.  
  “What do you plan to do with me?”
  
  “I’ve something on my mind,” he said, setting her on his bed, following her
  down. As he leaned above her, his dark hungry gaze flickered over her, and his
  voice broke low. “Something I need tae see.”
  
  He rubbed an unsteady hand over his mouth, looking like a man in agony. His
  body seemed to thrum with tension. Frowning, she brought her palms up to cup
  his face, but he groaned and shuddered, even at that slight touch. What was
  happening here?
  
  For all the books she’d read, for all that she’d heard from her cousins and
  learned in London, she’d never imagined a man behaving like this—as though he
  were about to die from desire, pained with a need so great he could scarcely
  speak and could barely stand to be touched.
  
  Hugh slowly reached forward to brush her nightdress straps down her shoulders,
  then dipped a kiss to her collarbone. Just as she felt cool air on her brea