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Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture - Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

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Publisher's Synopsis

Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and Oscar Wilde. It closely analyses the material book, including the elements of binding, typography, paper, ink and illustration, and brings textual studies and queer theory into conversation with literary experiments in free verse, fairy tales and symbolist drama. King argues that queer authors and artists revised the Revival of Printing's ideals for their own diverse and unique desires, adapting new technological innovations in print culture. Their books created a community of like-minded aesthetes who challenged legal and representational discourses of same-sex desire with one of aesthetic sensuality.

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Edinburgh University Press

Book information

ISBN: 9781399525947
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.992066
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 566g
Height: 161mm
Width: 241mm
Spine width: 24mm