Dennis Denisoff

Aestheticism and Sexual Parody 1840-1940

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Produktbeschreibung

This 2001 book studies the concept of parody as a strategy used by sexually marginalized groups.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521800396
• ISBN-10: 0521800390
• Artikelnr.: 24299704

Autorenporträt

Dennis Denisoff is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson Polytechnic University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Alfred Tennyson and the critical sexualization of Aestheticism
2. The leering creatures of W. H. Mallock and Vernon Lee
3. Gigolo economics: W. S. Gilbert and the market value of parodic promiscuity
4. 'Men of my own sex': genius, sexuality, and George du Maurier's artists
5. Epistemological misfiring in the aestheticist camp of Ada Leverson and Robert Hichens
6. Max Beerbohm, Christopher Isherwood, and Camp Homage
Epilogue
Notes
Works cites
Index.