Picturing the Closet: Male Secrecy and Homosexual Visibility in Britain

by Dominic Janes

To what extent did people think they could identify an 'obvious' sodomite before the construction of the homosexual as a type of person during the latter part of the nineteenth century? What role did secrecy and denial play in relation to the visual expression of same-sex desire before the term 'the closet' came into widespread use in the latter part of the twentieth century? And what, therefore, did sodomites/homosexuals/gays/queers look like in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190205636
• ISBN13: 9780190205638
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"