Picturing the Closet - Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain

Zusatztext Picturing the Closet offers a compelling and nuanced history of the border zones in which men's desires for each other were signaled and recognized. Dominic Janes's illuminating and wide-ranging assessment of the structuring roles of desire, dissemblance, and disclosure is an important contribution to the study of British visual culture since the eighteenth century. Informationen zum Autor Dominic Janes is Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. His other books include Victorian Reformation: The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church of England and God and Gold in Late Antiquity. Klappentext Picturing the Closet takes a pioneering approach to visual culture and by so doing builds on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet in order to present a compelling new approach to the British experience of queer culture since the eighteenth century. Zusammenfassung Picturing the Closet takes a pioneering approach to visual culture and by so doing builds on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemology of the Closet in order to present a compelling new approach to the British experience of queer culture since the eighteenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Ch. 1, Introduction: Picturing the Closet Part One Ch. 2, Hogarth's Panic Ch. 3, Burke's Solution Ch. 4, The Decorative and the Damned Part Two Ch. 5, Athletics and Aesthetics Ch. 6, Strachey in Earnest Ch. 7, Expulsion Part Three Ch. 8, Criminal Practices Ch. 9, The Unliberated Ch. 10, After the Outrage Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Dominic Janes, Dominic (Senior Lecturer in Cultural Histor Janes, Dominic (Senior Lecturer in Cultural History and Visual Studies Janes
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2015
• EAN: 9780190205638
• ISBN: 978-0-19-020563-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kunstgeschichte, Russland, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans)