Cecil Dreeme
A Novel
An curious gem of 19th-century gothic fictionCecil Dreeme is one of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition, which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New York's West Village back to light. Published posthumously in 1861, the novel centers on Robert Byng, a young man who moves back to New York after traveling abroad and finds himself unmarried and underemployed, adrift in the heathenish dens of lower Manhattan. When he takes up rooms in Chrysalis College-a thinly veiled version of the…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-7839-0
- EAN: 9781479878390
- Produktnummer: 21433095
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 706 KB
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Theodore Winthrop
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