The Oldest Gay Novels
A Historical Anthology of Coded Desire, Gothic Intrigue, Decadence, and Queer Modernist VoicesBy Oscar Wilde, Bayard Taylor, Virginia Woolf, Lucas Malet, Robert Hichens, Henry Blake Fuller, Radclyffe Hall, Jack Saul, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, Harlan Cozad McIntosh
Length120h
About this audiobook
The Oldest Gay Novels gathers fiction from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to trace the emergence of same-sex desire as a subject of narrative seriousness, sensation, wit, and social critique. Its range extends from Gothic unease and decadent romance to realist observation, travel-inflected adventure, psychological portraiture, and modernist experimentation. Works of clandestine attachment, public scandal, gender nonconformity, and forbidden intimacy reveal how queer life was imagined before contemporary vocabularies and institutions had fully formed. The collection's contributors occupy markedly different positions within Anglo-American literary culture: popular novelists, aesthetes, Gothic innovators, expatriate observers, and modernist stylists. Together, Oscar Wilde, Bayard Taylor, Virginia Woolf, Lucas Malet, Robert Hichens, Henry Blake Fuller, Radclyffe Hall, Jack Saul, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, and Harlan Cozad McIntosh illuminate intersecting currents of fin-de-siècle decadence, Victorian moral anxiety, emerging sexology, and modernist challenges to fixed identity. Their varied approaches show that queer literary history developed through implication as often as declaration. This volume is recommended for readers of LGBTQ+ history, literary studies, and the novel alike. It offers an unusually capacious encounter with formative texts, inviting comparison across genres, nations, and periods while fostering a rich dialogue about desire, secrecy, representation, and literary inheritance.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length120 hrs
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Out & Proud: Gay Classics Collection
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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