Effeminate England : homoerotic writing after 1885
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Effeminate England : homoerotic writing after 1885
（Gender in writing）
Open University Press, 1995
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p181-189. - Includes index
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Description
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".
Table of Contents
- Wilde's Fatal Effeminacy
- Against "Effeminancy": The Sexual Predicament of E.M. Forster's Fiction
- Firbank's Exotic Effeminacy
- "No sign of Effeminatio"?
- Towards the Military Orchid
- Coda: Effeminate Endings.
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