Picturing the Closet

Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain

Autor: Dominic Janes

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Wydawca: Oxford University Press Inc

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To what extent did people think they could identify an 'obvious' sodomite before the construction of...

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Autor

Dominic Janes

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2015

strony

240

EAN

9780190205638

ISBN

0190205636

Enbook ID

09020327

Wydawca

Oxford University Press Inc

Waga

714

Wymiary

186 x 263 x 21

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To what extent did people think they could identify an 'obvious' sodomite before the construction of the homosexual as a type of person during the latter part of the nineteenth century? What role did secrecy and denial play in relation to the visual expression of same-sex desire before the term 'the closet' came into widespread use in the latter part of the twentieth century? And what, therefore, did sodomites/homosexuals/gays/queers look like in Britain in 1700, 1800, 1900 and 2000? Could they be spotted mincing down the street? Or were such as these just the flamboyant few whose presence conveniently drew attention away from the many others who wanted to appear 'normal'? These issues are not peripheral to the struggle of the last several decades for individual self-determination and self-expression. It was this set of cultural constructions that the pioneering writer Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) attacked in her book Epistemology of the Closet as representing 'the defining structure for gay oppression in this century'. This book represents a visual culture counterpart to Sedgwick's study and aims, through the use of a series of interdisciplinary case-studies, to explore both the pre-history of the closet since the eighteenth century and its evolution through to the present day. Chapters explore key moments and issues within the British cultural experience and make pioneering use of a wide range of source materials ranging from art to fashion, literature, philosophy, theology, film and archival records.

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