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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 (290 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780816696819 |