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Manly Love Romantic Friendship in American Fiction

Hardcover • 2009 • English • 1. edition

Manly Love Romantic Friendship in American Fiction

By Axel Nissen

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

The modern idea of Victorians is that they were emotionless prudes, imprisoned by sexual repression and suffocating social constraints; they expressed love and affection only within the bounds of matrimony—if at all. And yet, a wealth of evidence contradicting this idea has been hiding in plain sight for close to a century. In Manly Love, Axel Nissen turns to the novels and short stories of Victorian America to uncover the widely overlooked phenomenon of passionate friendships between men. Nisse...Show more

Book details

ISBN

9780226586663

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2009

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Manly Love Romantic Friendship in American Fiction

Format

Hardcover

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