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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garlinger, Patrick Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xliii, 243 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index.
ISBN:9780816696819
0816696810