Confessions of the letter closet : epistolary fiction and queer desire in modern Spain /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garlinger, Patrick Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2005.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Epistolary fiction, Spanish > History and criticism.
Spanish fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Homosexuality in literature.
Roman espagnol > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Homosexualité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Epistolary fiction, Spanish
Homosexuality in literature
Spanish fiction
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Archival resurrections of queer desire in Miguel de Unamuno
  • Specters of lesbian desire: love letters and queer readers in Carmen Martín Gaite
  • The ethics of outing in Luis Antonio de Villena
  • A witness to mourning: memory and testimony in Carme Riera
  • Pleasurable insurrections: sexual liberation and epistolary anarchy
  • E-mail, AIDS, and virtual sexuality in Lluís Fernàndez.

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