Manly love : romantic friendship in American fiction /
The modern idea of Victorians is that they were emotionless prudes, imprisoned by sexual repression and suffocating social constraints; they expressed love and affection only within the bounds of matrimony--if at all. And yet, a wealth of evidence contradicting this idea has been hiding in plain sig...
| Основен автор: | Nissen, Axel. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295309 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Manly love. |
| Резюме: |
The modern idea of Victorians is that they were emotionless prudes, imprisoned by sexual repression and suffocating social constraints; they expressed love and affection only within the bounds of matrimony--if at all. And yet, a wealth of evidence contradicting this idea has been hiding in plain sight for close to a century. In Manly Love, Axel Nissen turns to the novels and short stories of Victorian America to uncover the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. Nissen's examination of the literature of the period brings to light a forgotten genre: the fiction of ro. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 229 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226586687 0226586685 |