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Item Details
Title:
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EFFEMINATE ENGLAND
HOMOEROTIC WRITING AFTER 1885 |
By: |
Joseph Bristow |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£18.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0335096654 |
ISBN 13: |
9780335096657 |
Publisher: |
OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
1 September, 1995 |
Series: |
Gender in Writing S. |
Pages: |
208 |
Description: |
In exploring the late-Victorian association of effeminate behaviour with male homosexual identity, this book looks at how gay writers negotiated the stigma attached to the man-loving man of letters. Writers discussed include: E.M. Forster; Ronald Firbank; and John Addington Symonds. |
Synopsis: |
This text examines how and why effeminacy and empire were so very much at odds at the time of the Oscar Wilde trial in 1895. Exploring the late-Victorian association of effeminate behaviour with male homosexual identity, Joseph Bristow looks at how a number of gay writers negotiated the stigma attached to the man-loving man of letters. Chapters examine, in turn, Wilde's "fatal effeminacy", the effeminophobic narratives of E.M. Forster, the Anglophobic camp effeminacy of Ronald Firbank and the structures of sexual self-identification in the autobiographical writings of John Addington Symonds, J.R. Ackerley, Jocelyn Brooke and Quentin Crisp. A short coda investigates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on this tradition of gay men's writing, discussing in particular Alan Hollinghurst's novel, "The Swimming-Pool Library". |
Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Open University Press |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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