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Confessions of the Letter Closet : Epistolary Fiction and Queer Desire in Modern Spain by Patrick Paul Garlinger is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Confessions of the Letter Closet : Epistolary Fiction and Queer Desire in Modern Spain about?
By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a secret communicated through private letters. Patrick Paul Garlinger reveals how the confidential model persists in fictional letter writing from the early twentieth century to the present, framing expressions of queer desire in confessional terms: secrecy, guilt, morality, and shame.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Patrick Paul Garlinger
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816696819
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Business, Romance
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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