Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture (Nineteenth-century and Neo-victorian Cultures)

King, Frederick D.

Edinburgh University Press（2026/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399525954
• DDC分類 820.935380866

Full Description

Queer books, like LGBTQ+ people, adapt heteronormative structures and institutions to introduce space for discourses of queer desire. Queer Books of Late-Victorian Print Culture explores print culture adaptations of the material book, examining the works of Aubrey Beardsley, Michael Field, John Gray, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon and Oscar Wilde. It closely analyses the material book, including the elements of binding, typography, paper, ink and illustration, and brings textual studies and queer theory into conversation with literary experiments in free verse, fairy tales and symbolist drama. King argues that queer authors and artists revised the Revival of Printing's ideals for their own diverse and unique desires, adapting new technological innovations in print culture. Their books created a community of like-minded aesthetes who challenged legal and representational discourses of same-sex desire with one of aesthetic sensuality.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Series Preface

Introduction. Queer Books: A Multimedial Art

1. Concerning Golden Books and Silverpoints

2. Pomegranate Stains on the Ideal Book; or Queering the Hetero-Beautiful

3. Trans-Textuality in Michael Field's Long Ago and Whym Chow

4. Collaboration and Conflict: Queer Space in Salome

Conclusion: Queer Books and their Digital Afterlives

Bibliography

Index