Imre
Autor Edward Prime-Stevensonen Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2023
'I love thee... once more helpless, and therewith hopeless!--but this time no longer silent, before the Friendship which is Love, the Love which is Friendship.'Considered one of the first examples of the 'homosexual' novel, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum takes the reader to the almost Arcadian capital of Hungary, where a seemingly chance encounter brings together Englishman Oswald and dashing Hungarian officer Imre. From the initial stages of their friendship, there is no doubt on Oswald's part that this is love at first sight. But will Imre return Oswald's feelings? Will they dare to let their guard down-the figurative 'Mask' that has become second nature to them? Heavily indebted to the newly established classificatory science of sexualities, Imre offers a thrilling and heart-rending account of the relationship between two super-virile men at the turn of the twentieth century.This edition presents an authentic version of the text that preserves the author's orthographical and other eccentricities, and opens the door to the sexological subtext that propels the plot. Also included is one of Prime-Stevenson's dramatic short stories, 'The Lady with the Madonna-Face', in which Imre returns.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781914475559
ISBN-10: 1914475550
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Fahrenheit Press
ISBN-10: 1914475550
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 147 x 218 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Fahrenheit Press
Recenzii
Winner of the 2003 Silver Medal for Gay/Lesbian Fiction, ForeWord Magazine
Imre is one of the first openly gay American novels without a tragic ending. Described by the author as “a little psychological romance,” the narrative follows two men who meet by chance in a café; in Budapest, where they forge a friendship that leads to a series of mutual revelations and gradual disclosures. With its sympathetic characterizations of homosexual men, Imre’s 1906 publication marked a turning point in English literature.
This edition includes material relating to the novels origins, contemporary writings on homosexuality, other writings by Prime-Stevenson, and a contemporary review.
“Like Whitman’s noiseless, patient spider, Prime-Stevenson’s homosexual characters spin out threads of mutual recognition and loving affirmation. An invaluable literary document, Imre is also an unexpectedly absorbing fiction, here accompanied by an excellent scholarly apparatus.” — John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
“Not only are we given Prime-Stevenson’s text in the most readable form it has ever enjoyed, but also an eloquent introduction that illuminates both the life of this mysterious author and the historical and literary significance of this, his most important work, and a fascinating sequence of appendices. This edition is a piece of scholarship as exciting as it is rigorous.” — David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell, editors of Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Literature in English from 1748 to 1914
“This edition shows how carefully the novel is positioned geographically at the very margins of Europe at the very end of the Belle Époque, and hownearly a century after its compositionthe novel not only has a good deal to say about its day, but also our own.” — David Bergman, Towson University, author of Gaiety Transfigured
Imre is one of the first openly gay American novels without a tragic ending. Described by the author as “a little psychological romance,” the narrative follows two men who meet by chance in a café; in Budapest, where they forge a friendship that leads to a series of mutual revelations and gradual disclosures. With its sympathetic characterizations of homosexual men, Imre’s 1906 publication marked a turning point in English literature.
This edition includes material relating to the novels origins, contemporary writings on homosexuality, other writings by Prime-Stevenson, and a contemporary review.
“Like Whitman’s noiseless, patient spider, Prime-Stevenson’s homosexual characters spin out threads of mutual recognition and loving affirmation. An invaluable literary document, Imre is also an unexpectedly absorbing fiction, here accompanied by an excellent scholarly apparatus.” — John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard
“Not only are we given Prime-Stevenson’s text in the most readable form it has ever enjoyed, but also an eloquent introduction that illuminates both the life of this mysterious author and the historical and literary significance of this, his most important work, and a fascinating sequence of appendices. This edition is a piece of scholarship as exciting as it is rigorous.” — David Leavitt and Mark Mitchell, editors of Pages Passed From Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Literature in English from 1748 to 1914
“This edition shows how carefully the novel is positioned geographically at the very margins of Europe at the very end of the Belle Époque, and hownearly a century after its compositionthe novel not only has a good deal to say about its day, but also our own.” — David Bergman, Towson University, author of Gaiety Transfigured
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Edward Prime-Stevenson:A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Imre: A Memorandum
Introduction to the Appendices
Appendix A: On the Origin of Imre
Appendix B: The Medical Establishment and Homosexuality—A Sample Case Study
Appendix C: Homosexuality and the Artistic Temperament
Appendix D: Excerpts from The Intersexes (1908)
Appendix E: From Life to Fiction
Appendix F: “The Most Peculiar Friend I Have Ever Had”
Appendix G: A Contemporary Review of Imre
Works Cited and Recommended Reading
Introduction
Edward Prime-Stevenson:A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Imre: A Memorandum
Introduction to the Appendices
Appendix A: On the Origin of Imre
Appendix B: The Medical Establishment and Homosexuality—A Sample Case Study
Appendix C: Homosexuality and the Artistic Temperament
Appendix D: Excerpts from The Intersexes (1908)
Appendix E: From Life to Fiction
Appendix F: “The Most Peculiar Friend I Have Ever Had”
Appendix G: A Contemporary Review of Imre
Works Cited and Recommended Reading
Notă biografică
Zsolt Bojti teaches in the Department of English Studies at ELTE E^"otvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and is editor-in-chief to the Department's scholarly journal, The AnaChronisT. His research focuses on the intersection of nineteenth-century German sexology and the English literary history of sexuality at the turn of the century. His first monograph, Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson, was published with Routledge in 2025.S. Brooke Cameron is Associate Professor at Queen's University (Kingston, Canada). Much of her research focuses on gender and economic themes in nineteenth-century and fin-de-siècle literature. She has also recently turned her attention to children's literature, as well as popular horror (including Vampire Studies). She authored Critical Alliances: Economics and Feminism in English Women's Writing, 1880-1914 (2020) and co-edited The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century Literature: A Feast of Blood (2022).