It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. By foregrounding a 'culturalist' approach to fiction by Wilde, Stenbock, and Prime-Stevenson, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights to shed new light on the interdisciplinary reading practices of late-Victorian subjects.
It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. By foregrounding a 'culturalist' approach to fiction by Wilde, Stenbock, and Prime-Stevenson, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights to shed new light on the interdisciplinary reading practices of late-Victorian subjects.
Zsolt Bojti is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and is the editor-in-chief of the Department's scholarly journal, The AnaChronisT. His research focuses on the intersection of nineteenth-century German sexology and the English literary history of sexuality at the turn of the century.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Homophilia and Hungarophilia Chapter 1: (Con)texts of Same-Sex Desire: Medico-Legal Discourses and Literature Chapter 2: Literary Snares in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Teleny Chapter 3: Gothic Performance: Homophile Conceptual Muddle in Eric Stenbock's 'The True Story of a Vampire' Chapter 4: False Snares and Sexology in Edward Prime-Stevenson's 'Homosexual Romance' Conclusions and Afterword: Whatever Happened to Reading Hungarophilia Anthologically Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction: Homophilia and Hungarophilia Chapter 1: (Con)texts of Same-Sex Desire: Medico-Legal Discourses and Literature Chapter 2: Literary Snares in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Teleny Chapter 3: Gothic Performance: Homophile Conceptual Muddle in Eric Stenbock's 'The True Story of a Vampire' Chapter 4: False Snares and Sexology in Edward Prime-Stevenson's 'Homosexual Romance' Conclusions and Afterword: Whatever Happened to Reading Hungarophilia Anthologically Bibliography Index
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