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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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John Brent (Paperback)
Theodore Winthrop; Edited by Dean H Propst
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R764
Discovery Miles 7 640
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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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Cecil Dreeme (Paperback)
Theodore Winthrop; Edited by Christopher Looby
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R744
Discovery Miles 7 440
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor
substitute for passionate love between men—and heterosexuality's
historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently,
Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."—Christopher Looby,
from the Introduction Freshly returned to New York City from his
studies abroad, unmoored by news of the apparent suicide of his
accomplished childhood friend Clara Denman, and drawn in spite of
himself toward the sinister man-about-town Densdeth, Robert Byng is
unsettlingly adrift in the city of his birth. Things take an even
stranger turn once he finds lodgings in the Gothic halls of
Chrysalis College in lower Manhattan. There he meets the
mysteriously reclusive Cecil Dreeme, brilliant artist and creature
of the night. In Dreeme, Byng finds a friend unlike any he has
known before. But is Cecil the man he claims to be, and can their
friendship survive the dangers they will soon face together? Issued
posthumously in 1861, Cecil Dreeme was the first published novel of
Theodore Winthrop, who has the unfortunate distinction of being one
of the first Union officers killed in the line of duty during the
Civil War. Newly edited by Christopher Looby, it is a very queer
book indeed.
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John Brent (Hardcover)
Theodore Winthrop
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R2,269
R2,149
Discovery Miles 21 490
Save R120 (5%)
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