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Apocalyptic Overtures : Sexual Politics and the Sense of an Ending by Richard Dellamora is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Fin de siécle: the phrase evokes at once a sense of decadence, deviant sexuality, and fears that history is coming to an end. For gays, the ends of centuries carry an even greater fear of real endings as they contemplate the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895 and the onset of AIDS just a decade ago. By considering apocalyptic thinking and crises in masculine representation together, Richard Dellamora lets us see what was--and is--at stake in the fin de siécle definitions of gay identity. Issues domin
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- Author
- Richard Dellamora
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813520568
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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