Out & Proud: Gay Classics Collection
Victorian Secrets, Gothic Desire, and Modernist Voices in Queer Literary HistoryBy Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, Bayard Taylor, Harlan Cozad McIntosh, Robert Hichens, Jack Saul, Lucas Malet, Henry Blake Fuller
Length120h
About this audiobook
Out & Proud: Gay Classics Collection traces a rich, often coded genealogy of same-sex desire across Gothic fiction, decadent prose, travel writing, social satire, modernist experiment, and early queer realism. Its selections reveal how longing, secrecy, friendship, transgression, and self-fashioning were articulated under shifting moral and legal pressures. From spectral Gothic atmospheres and fin-de-siècle ambiguities to psychologically searching modernist narratives, the volume demonstrates that queer literary history has never been stylistically uniform or culturally marginal. Bringing together Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, Bayard Taylor, Harlan Cozad McIntosh, Robert Hichens, Jack Saul, Lucas Malet, and Henry Blake Fuller, the collection spans Victorian, Edwardian, and modernist literary cultures. These writers occupy distinct positions within anglophone traditions of aestheticism, Decadence, Gothic revival, social realism, and lesbian and gay self-representation. Read collectively, their works illuminate the diverse conventions through which queer lives were concealed, imagined, contested, and increasingly claimed. This anthology is recommended for students, scholars, and general readers seeking an expansive introduction to queer literary heritage. Its varied forms and historical settings invite comparison across generations, while its juxtapositions foster a sustained dialogue between coded expression and public affirmation. Out & Proud offers both educational breadth and the pleasures of rediscovering a multifaceted canon.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length120 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 11, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Franklin Evans (Annotated)
26Revised & Expanded 1891 Version
2Out & Proud: Gay Classics Collection
27THE PREFACE
3Orlando
28CHAPTER I.
4PREFACE
29CHAPTER II.
5CHAPTER 1
30CHAPTER III.
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6CHAPTER 2
31CHAPTER IV.
7CHAPTER 3
32CHAPTER V.
8CHAPTER 4
33CHAPTER VI.
9CHAPTER 5
34CHAPTER VII.
10CHAPTER 6
35CHAPTER VIII.
11The Picture of Dorian Gray
36CHAPTER IX.
12Original 1890 Version
37CHAPTER X.
13CHAPTER I
38CHAPTER XI.
14CHAPTER II
39CHAPTER XII
15CHAPTER III
40CHAPTER XIII.
16CHAPTER IV
41CHAPTER XIV.
17CHAPTER V
42CHAPTER XV.
18CHAPTER VI
43CHAPTER XVI.
19CHAPTER VII
44CHAPTER XVII.
20CHAPTER VIII
45CHAPTER XVIII.
21CHAPTER IX
46CHAPTER XIX.
22CHAPTER X
47CHAPTER XX.
23CHAPTER XI
48Cecil Dreeme
24CHAPTER XII
49Biographical Sketch of the Author
25CHAPTER XIII
50Stillfleet and His News
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