02743nam 22005894a 450 991078411140332120230617004516.00-8166-9681-0(CKB)1000000000346707(EBL)310709(OCoLC)191952830(SSID)ssj0000278137(PQKBManifestationID)11207060(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278137(PQKBWorkID)10246228(PQKB)11002715(MiAaPQ)EBC310709(MdBmJHUP)muse39024(Au-PeEL)EBL310709(CaPaEBR)ebr10151313(CaONFJC)MIL522440(EXLCZ)99100000000034670720050223d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConfessions of the letter closet[electronic resource] epistolary fiction and queer desire in modern Spain /Patrick Paul GarlingerMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20051 online resource (289 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4494-2 0-8166-4493-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.Archival resurrections of queer desire in Miguel de Unamuno --Specters of lesbian desire: love letters and queer readers in Carmen Martín Gaite --The ethics of outing in Luis Antonio de Villena --A witness to mourning: memory and testimony in Carme Riera --Pleasurable insurrections: sexual liberation and epistolary anarchy --E-mail, AIDS, and virtual sexuality in Lluís Fernàndez.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.Epistolary fiction, SpanishHistory and criticismSpanish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismHomosexuality in literatureEpistolary fiction, SpanishHistory and criticism.Spanish fictionHistory and criticism.Homosexuality in literature.863/.609353Garlinger Patrick Paul1572545MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784111403321Confessions of the letter closet3847570UNINA