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Ornamental Gentlemen

Literary Antiquarianism and Queerness in British Literature and Culture, 1760-1890

Ornamental Gentlemen( )
Author: Robinson, Michael
Series title:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism EUP Ser.
ISBN:978-0-7486-8245-4
Publication Date:Sep 2020
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $120.00
Book Description:

This book addresses the many questions about the suppressed bookish dimension of Romanticism. Addressing Gothic novels by a pair of noted eighteenth-century book collectors (and pederasts), campy bibliographies and mock-heroic poems about book auctions by an excited fan of aristocratic book collectors, narratives of compulsive book collecting (and drug-abuse) by a prototypical Bohemian and self-styled addict, and the rare-book forgeries of queer bibliographer-scholars responsible for...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / Lgbtq+
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.14 x 9.21 Inches



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