The Green Carnations: Gay Classics Boxed Set
Queer Classics of Coded Desire, Decadence, Satire, and Erotic RebellionBy Bayard Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Theodore Winthrop, Harlan Cozad McIntosh, Jack Saul, Henry Blake Fuller, Petronius
Length71h 11m
About this audiobook
The Green Carnations: Gay Classics Boxed Set gathers a capacious genealogy of same-sex desire, coded identity, urban sociability, and aesthetic rebellion across antiquity and the modern period. Its range encompasses classical satire, travel-inflected reflection, decadent wit, realist fiction, and franker varieties of erotic and social narrative. Rather than presenting gay literature as a single tradition, the set illuminates its shifting languages—from allusion and irony to confession and critique—and its standout evocations of the green carnation's cultural resonance make visible the interplay of style, secrecy, and self-fashioning. The contributors represent markedly different historical locations: Petronius recalls the sexual and social pluralities of Roman literature, while Bayard Taylor, Theodore Winthrop, Henry Blake Fuller, Harlan Cozad McIntosh, Jack Saul, and Oscar Wilde chart nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Anglophone negotiations with masculinity, desire, class, and public respectability. Read together, these voices situate the collection within the emergence of modern homosexual consciousness, while resisting any overly linear account of that emergence. This boxed set is especially recommended for readers of queer studies, comparative literature, and cultural history, as well as for those seeking foundational yet aesthetically varied writing. Its juxtapositions invite careful attention to what can be spoken, disguised, desired, or contested in different eras, fostering a rich dialogue among texts that continue to shape discussions of queer literary inheritance.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length71 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 14, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Lily of the Valley (Annotated)
26CHAPTER VII.
2The Green Carnations: Gay Classics Boxed Set
27CHAPTER VIII.
3The Picture of Dorian Gray
28CHAPTER IX.
4Original 1890 Version
29CHAPTER X.
5CHAPTER I
30CHAPTER XI.
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6CHAPTER II
31CHAPTER XII
7CHAPTER III
32CHAPTER XIII.
8CHAPTER IV
33CHAPTER XIV.
9CHAPTER V
34CHAPTER XV.
10CHAPTER VI
35CHAPTER XVI.
11CHAPTER VII
36CHAPTER XVII.
12CHAPTER VIII
37CHAPTER XVIII.
13CHAPTER IX
38CHAPTER XIX.
14CHAPTER X
39CHAPTER XX.
15CHAPTER XI
40Joseph and His Friend
16CHAPTER XII
41CHAPTER I. JOSEPH.
17CHAPTER XIII
42CHAPTER II. MISS BLESSING.
18Revised & Expanded 1891 Version
43CHAPTER III. THE PLACE AND PEOPLE.
19THE PREFACE
44CHAPTER IV. MISS BLESSING CALLS ON RACHEL MILLER.
20CHAPTER I.
45CHAPTER V. ELWOOD'S EVENING, AND JOSEPH'S.
21CHAPTER II.
46CHAPTER VI. IN THE GARDEN.
22CHAPTER III.
47CHAPTER VII. THE BLESSING FAMILY.
23CHAPTER IV.
48CHAPTER VIII. A CONSULTATION.
24CHAPTER V.
49CHAPTER IX. JOSEPH AND HIS FRIEND.
25CHAPTER VI.
50CHAPTER X. APPROACHING FATE.
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