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Cecil Dreeme - A Novel (Hardcover)
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Cecil Dreeme - A Novel (Hardcover)
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An curious gem of 19th-century gothic fiction Cecil Dreeme is one
of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition,
which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual
history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a
rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New York's
West Village back to light. Published posthumously in 1861, the
novel centers on Robert Byng, a young man who moves back to New
York after traveling abroad and finds himself unmarried and
underemployed, adrift in the heathenish dens of lower Manhattan.
When he takes up rooms in "Chrysalis College"-a thinly veiled
version of the 19th-century New York University building in
Washington Square-he quickly finds himself infatuated with a young
painter lodging there, named Cecil Dreeme. As their friendship
grows and the novel unfolds against the backdrop of the bohemian
West Village, Robert confesses that he "loves Cecil with a love
passing the love of women." Yet, there are dark forces at work in
the form of the sinister and magnetic Densdeth, a charismatic
figure of bad intention, who seeks to ensnare Robert for his own.
Full of romantic entanglements, mistaken identity, blackmail, and
the dramas of temptation and submission, Cecil Dreeme is a gothic
novel at its finest. Poetically written-with flashes of Walt
Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde-Cecil Dreeme is an early
example of that rare bird, a queer novel from the 19th century.
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