Zsolt Bojtis Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Sičcle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century studies. Bojtis re/discovery of the synergies between these thinkers and writers is rich and erudite; and his painstaking investigation, in particular, into the elusive Prime-Stevensons life and works is pioneering. Bojtis archival findings are presented engagingly; and his close readings are revelatory. Ive learned much from Queer Reading Practices and Sexology. This is the work of a marvellous scholar at the top of his game.
Tom Ue, FRHistS, Assistant Professor, Cape Breton University, Canada
This book provides scholars and students with a much-needed critical resource on queer literature and sexology at the end of the nineteenth century. It changes the way we think about queer literatures contribution to fin-de-sičcle sexual science, and vice versa; better yet, its bold interdisciplinary analysis pushes us to rethink the confines of period or national literaturesencouraging us to read canonical and non-canonical texts alongside each other in order to gain a richer sense of the modern invention of homosexuality and the polymath reading practices as embraced by our queer Victorian subjects. Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Sičcle Literature poses a significant contribution to literary studies and queer cultural histories alike.
S. Brooke Cameron, Associate Professor, Queens University, Canada
Homosexuality was a neologism coined by a Hungarian, so it is entirely fitting that, at precisely the point it was becoming the word of choice for same-sex attraction, there was a literary fashion for hungarophile/homophile literature. This book gives a lively account of three writersWilde, Stenbock, and Prime Stevensonwho deployed Hungarianness as a queer motif on either side of the fin de sičcle.
Douglas Pretsell, Keele University, UK
