02734nam 22006014a 450 991081448760332120200520144314.00-8166-9681-0(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 epistolary fiction and queer desire in modern Spain /Patrick Paul Garlinger1st ed.Minneapolis 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 Martin 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 Lluis Fernandez.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 Paul1665847MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814487603321Confessions of the letter closet4024725UNINA