Queer Books of Late Victorian Print Culture

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.

Author: Frederick D. King
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/31/2024
Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781399525947