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"...expansive, accessible and assured." - Gay Times "...a fertile, compelling and individual work whichwillbe required reading for anyone teaching or studying 20th centurygay and literary studies." - Times Higher Education Supplement "...a very solid and engaging book, providing freshinsights into canonical texts and writers, whilst opening up new textual territory." - English
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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".
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- Henry James and Sexuality by Hugh Stevens in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880-1920 (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Pamela Thurschwell in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Queer Forster (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) by Robert K. Martin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) by Julie Anne Taddeo in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World War by Sarah Cole in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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