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oapen-20.500.12657-305682024-03-25T09:51:38Z Houses, Secrets, and the Closet Bauer, Gero Literature Literature Gender Queer Masculinity Homosexuality Gothic Novel Sensation Novel Henry James Literary Studies British Studies American Studies Gender Studies Cultural Studies Heterosexuality Homoeroticism Homosociality Paranoia Patriarchy Percival Rhetoric thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general »Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the »closet« – the male homosexual secret – which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities. 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:32 2020-04-01T13:01:41Z 2020-04-01T13:01:41Z 2016-04-15 book 645341 OCN: 950613054 9783839434680 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30568 eng Lettre application/pdf n/a 645341.pdf transcript Verlag 101251 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839434680 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bielefeld, Germany 101251 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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»Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts through the lens of domestic space, gender, knowledge, and power. This approach serves to investigate the cultural roots of the »closet« – the male homosexual secret – which reveals a more general notion of male secrecy in modern society. The study thus contributes to a better understanding of the cultural history of masculinities and sexualities.
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