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Examine Lytton Strachey 's struggle to create a new homosexual
identity and voice through his life and work This study of Lytton
Strachey, one of the neglected voices of early twentieth-century
England, uses his life and work to re-evaluate early British
modernism and the relationship between Strachey 's sexual rebellion
and literature.A perfect ancillary textbook for courses in history,
literature, and women 's studies, Lytton Strachey and the Search
for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian contributes
to the expanding field of queer studies from an historian 's
perspective. It looks at homosexuality through the eyes of Lytton
Strachey as opposed to the too-often analyzed Oscar Wilde and E.M.
Forster. Questioning the idea that homosexuality is a
"transgressive rebellion," as Strachey as well as scholars on
Bloomsbury have insisted, this volume focuses on the ongoing
conflict between Strachey 's Victorian notions of class, gender,
and race, and his desire to be modern.Linking Strachey 's life and
work to the larger movement of English modernism, Lytton Strachey
and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity examines: Strachey 's
role at Cambridge before World War I how he created his version of
homosexuality out of the Victorian tradition of male romantic
friendship his relations with the British Empire as he constructed
a rich fantasy life that rested on racial and class differences his
friendships and rivalries with the women of Bloomsbury how Strachey
's use of sexuality, androgyny, and history defined (and
undermined) his brand of modernismThis thoughtfully indexed,
well-referenced volume looks at Strachey 's life, in the words of
author Julie Anne Taddeo, "to illustrate some of the issues
concerning his generation of Cambridge and Bloomsbury colleagues
and how they battled the Victorian ideology, often without
success." It is an essential read for everyone interested in this
fascinating chapter in literary (and queer) history.
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