Ghosts in the Closet? : The Dandy, Specter, and Spectacle in Jean Lorrain’s Monsieur de Bougrelon and Monsieur de Phocas
While male same-sex desire was decriminalized in France after the 1789 Revolution, the specter of deviant sexuality haunted France throughout the nineteenth century. In the beginning of the century male same-sex desire seemed to only harass the shadows of parks, arcades, and dimly lit colonnades. Th...
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| Sprache: | English |
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2017
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| Schlagworte: | Fin-de-siècle French literature dandy queer/LGBT studies and theory decadent literature camp Arts Social sciences Behavioral sciences Philosophy |