Cecil Dreeme (eBook)

Queer Classic Novel

Theodore Winthrop (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
205 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-406649908-2 (EAN)

Infos

Robert Byng has recently returned from his Grand Tour of Europe to settle in New York City. An old friend lends Byng his rooms at Chrysalis College (an equivalent of real-life New York University, perhaps also partially modelled on the Tenth Street Studio Building). It is there that Byng meets his mysterious and reclusive neighbor Cecil Dreeme, and the two strike up a romantic friendship. However, Byng is also tempted by the villainous Densdeth, who seems to want the protagonist to fall into a life of unspecified sin and debauchery. Published posthumously by the author's friend George William Curtis in 1861, Cecil Dreeme has been called "one of the queerest American novels of the nineteenth century" by scholar Peter Coviello, and it addresses themes of gender and sexuality.

Autor

Theodore Winthrop (1828–1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. Cecil Dreeme, his most important work, was a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with social mores and gender roles set at New York University, where Winthrop had once been a lodger.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 19th-century New York City • Cecil Dreeme characters • Death in Venice • gender exploration • Giovanni's Room • historical LGBTQ themes • Jeanette Winterson • literary exploration of sin • Maurice • Michael Cunningham • Middlesex • moral ambiguity • mysterious neighbor • Oscar Wilde • queer American novel • romantic friendship • The Color Purple • villainous temptation • Virginia Woolf • well of loneliness