Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-De-Siecle Literature - Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson

It scrutinises the production and transnational distribution of sexological knowledge at the turn of the century. By foregrounding a 'culturalist' approach to fiction by Wilde, Stenbock, and Prime-Stevenson, this book offers non-Anglocentric insights to shed new light on the interdisciplinary reading practices of late-Victorian subjects.

List of 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

About the author

Zsolt Bojti is a senior lecturer in the Department of English Studies of ELTE Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and is the editor-in-chief of the Department's scholarly journal, The AnaChronisT. His research focuses on the intersection of nineteenth-century German sexology and the English literary history of sexuality at the turn of the century.

Product details

• Authors: Zsolt Bojti
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 28.07.2025
• EAN: 9781032772080
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3277208-0
• No. of pages: 169
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity