LEADER 04450oam 22006254a 450 001 9910809976303321 005 20240125134221.0 010 $a1-4798-5702-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479857029 035 $a(CKB)3710000000603684 035 $a(EBL)4045284 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001623711 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16360866 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001623711 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14830254 035 $a(PQKB)10519732 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4045284 035 $a(DE-B1597)547926 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479857029 035 $a(OCoLC)1227050599 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87080 035 $a(OCoLC)942597309 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000603684 100 $a20160222d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCecil Dreeme$eA Novel /$fTheodore Winthrop ; with an introduction by Peter Coviello 205 $aNew edition /$bintroduction by Peter Coviello. 210 1$aNew York :$cWashington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press,$d2016. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d2021 210 4$dİ2016. 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 0 $aWashington Mews ;$v1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-0901-2 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tA Note on the Fales Library --$tIntroduction: Peculiar Tendernesses: Cecil Dreeme and the Queer Nineteenth Century --$tBiographical Sketch of the Author: From the Original 1861 Edition --$t1. Stillfleet and His News --$t2. Chrysalis College --$t3. Rubbish Palace --$t4. The Palace and Its Neighbors --$t5. Churm against Densdeth --$t6. Churm as Cassandra --$t7. Churm?s Story --$t8. Clara Denman, Dead --$t9. Locksley?s Scare --$t10. Overhead, Without --$t11. Overhead, Within --$t12. Dreeme, Asleep --$t13. Dreeme, Awake --$t14. A Mild Orgie --$t15. A Morning with Densdeth --$t16. Emma Denman --$t17. A Morning with Cecil Dreeme --$t18. Another Cassandra --$t19. Can This Be Love? --$t20. A Nocturne --$t21. Lydian Measures --$t22. A Laugh and a Look --$t23. A Parting --$t24. Fame Awaits Dreeme --$t25. Churm before Dreeme?s Picture --$t26. Towner --$t27. Raleigh?s Revolt --$t28. Densdeth?s Farewell --$t29. Dreeme His Own Interpreter --$t30. Densdeth?s Dark Room --$tAbout the Author 330 $aAn curious gem of 19th-century gothic fiction Cecil Dreeme is one of the queerest American novels of the 19th century. This edition, which includes a new introduction contextualizing the sexual history of the period and queer longings of the book, brings a rare, almost forgotten, sensational gothic novel set in New York?s West Village back to light. Published posthumously in 1861, the novel centers on Robert Byng, a young man who moves back to New York after traveling abroad and finds himself unmarried and underemployed, adrift in the heathenish dens of lower Manhattan. When he takes up rooms in ?Chrysalis College??a thinly veiled version of the 19th-century New York University building in Washington Square?he quickly finds himself infatuated with a young painter lodging there, named Cecil Dreeme. As their friendship grows and the novel unfolds against the backdrop of the bohemian West Village, Robert confesses that he ?loves Cecil with a love passing the love of women.? Yet, there are dark forces at work in the form of the sinister and magnetic Densdeth, a charismatic figure of bad intention, who seeks to ensnare Robert for his own. Full of romantic entanglements, mistaken identity, blackmail, and the dramas of temptation and submission, Cecil Dreeme is a gothic novel at its finest. Poetically written?with flashes of Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde?Cecil Dreeme is an early example of that rare bird, a queer novel from the 19th century. 606 $aGay men$zNew York (State)$zNew York$vFiction 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial life and customs$vFiction 608 $aGothic fiction$2lcgft 608 $aRomantic suspense fiction. 608 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre) 615 0$aGay men 676 $a813/.3 700 $aWinthrop$b Theodore$f1828-1861,$0817348 702 $aCoviello$b Peter 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809976303321 996 $aCecil Dreeme$94102441 997 $aUNINA