Queer books of late Victorian print culture / Frederick D. King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Frederick D., author.

Series:

Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.

Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and cricitism.

English literature.

Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Sexual minorities in literature.

Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 258 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 16, 2026).

ISBN:

9781399525961 (electronic book)