Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature
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Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature

Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson

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Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature

Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson

About this book

This book scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. The works of three transnationally mobile authors are in the focus: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891) and Teleny (1893) by, and attributed to, Oscar Wilde; 'The True Story of a Vampire' (1894) by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock; and Imre: A Memorandum (1906) by Edward Prime-Stevenson. The textual analysis is governed by references in all four works to Hungarian culture to demonstrate how they conceptualised 'Hungarianness' and same-sex desire simultaneously in the light of the new classificatory science of sexualities coming from German-speaking Central Europe. By foregrounding a timely literary angle and a 'culturalist' approach, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights, not bound by either language or nationality, to shed new light on the interdisciplinary reading practices of late-Victorian subjects and the ways they contributed to the emergence of fin-de-siècle queer fiction.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040405093
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction: Homophilia and Hungarophilia
  9. 1 (Con)texts of Same-Sex Desire: Medico-Legal Discourses and Literature
  10. 2 Literary Snares in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Teleny
  11. 3 Gothic Performance: Homophile Conceptual Muddle in Eric Stenbock’s ‘The True Story of a Vampire’
  12. 4 False Snares and Sexology in Edward Prime-Stevenson’s ‘Homosexual Romance’
  13. Conclusions and Afterword: Whatever Happened to Reading Hungarophilia Anthologically
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index