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Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

UK 2015, 152 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Bloomsbury
Wer Paul Baileys schwulen Bestseller »Sugar Cane« aus dem Jahr 1993 kennt (heute auf Deutsch erhältlich unter dem Titel »Auf Tour«) und sich sein neues Buch »The Prince's Boy« vornimmt (erstmals 2013 und bisher nur auf Englisch erschienen), wird schnell feststellen, dass sich der Autor deutlich weiterentwickelt hat. Es gibt Parallelen zwischen den beiden Büchern. In beiden Büchern spielen männliche ... Weiterlesen
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Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

Paul Bailey: The Prince's Boy

UK 2015, 152 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bloomsbury
In May 1927, 19-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with literary ambitions, has just arrived in Paris. He has been sent from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, Dinu is secretly drawn to the Bains du ... Weiterlesen

David M. Friedman: Wilde in America

David M. Friedman: Wilde in America

Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity. USA 2014, 304 pp. illustrated, hardcover, € 29.99
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W. W. Norton
In 1882, Oscar Wilde, a 27-year-old genius at least by his own reckoning arrived in New York. The young gay man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extravagant passion for art and home design that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote an operetta lampooning him. He was hired to go to ... Weiterlesen

Nicholas Frankel (ed.): Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Nicholas Frankel (ed.): Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. USA 2011, 295 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 69.95
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Harvard University Press
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... Weiterlesen

Elisa Glick: Materializing Queer Desire

Elisa Glick: Materializing Queer Desire

Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol. USA 2009, 220 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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How did the queer subject come to occupy such a central, and in many respects, contradictory place in the modern world of the early 20th century? What role has capitalism played in the development of modern gay and lesbian identities? This book focuses on the figure of the dandy to explore how and why gay and lesbian subjects became heroes ... Weiterlesen

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisted

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisted

Film Tie-in. UK 2008, 324 pp., Pb, € 14.95
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At the end of World War II, Captain Charles Ryder and his troops, looking for a billet, have just arrived at Brideshead, the now-dilapidated family castle belonging to Lord Marchmain, a place where Charles Ryder stayed for an extended period just after World War I, the home of his best friend from Oxford, the outrageous and obviously gay Lord Sebastian ... Weiterlesen

Alice Cicolini: The New English Dandy

Alice Cicolini: The New English Dandy

USA 2005, 176 pp, hardbound, € 42.30
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The contemporary Englishman and the designers who design for him stepped into the international style limelight when journalists at Italian Menswear Fashion Week proclaimed that the "noughties" were the decade of British tailoring. Fusing classical principles with today's sensibilities, the book celebrates the return of the well-dressed man. Each thematic section features a specially commissioned fashion shoot by a rising ... Weiterlesen

Susan Fillin-Yeh (ed.): Dandies

Susan Fillin-Yeh (ed.): Dandies

Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture. USA 2001, 291 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.99
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New York University Press
»Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture« considers the visual languages, politics, and poetics of personal appearance. Dandyism has been most closely associated with influential caucasian Western men-about-town, epitomized by the 19th century style-setting of Oscar Wilde and by Tom Wolfe's white suits. The essays collected here, however, examine the spectacle and workings of dandyism to reveal that these ... Weiterlesen

Jack Gold (R): The Naked Civil Servant

Jack Gold (R): The Naked Civil Servant

UK 1975, OF, 77 Min., € 14.99
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The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant gay man, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England. A classic film starring John Hurt as Quentin Crisp.

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