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This book scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. The works of three transnationally mobile authors are in the focus: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891) and Teleny (1893) by, and attributed to, Oscar Wilde; 'The True Story of a Vampire' (1894) by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock; and Imre: A Memorandum (1906) by Edward Prime-Stevenson. The textual analysis is governed by references in all four works to Hungarian culture to demonstrate how they conceptualised 'Hungarianness' and same-sex desire simultaneously in the light of the new classificatory science of sexualities coming from German-speaking Central Europe. By foregrounding a timely literary angle and a 'culturalist' approach, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights, not bound by either language or nationality, to shed new light on the interdisciplinary reading practices of late-Victorian subjects and the ways they contributed to the emergence of fin-de-siècle queer fiction.
Contents
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



