Confessions of the letter closet : epistolary fiction and queer desire in modern Spain /
By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how the confidential model persists in fictional letter writing from the ear...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how the confidential model persists in fictional letter writing from the early twentieth century to the present, framing expressions of queer desire in confessional terms: secrecy, guilt, morality, and shame. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xliii, 243 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780816696819 0816696810 |