Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-03

Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS

COPYRIGHT 2003 Modern Humanities Research Association

Proust's Cup of Tea: Homoeroticism and Victorian Culture. By EMILY EELLS. (Studies in European Cultural Transition, 15) Aldershot: Ashgate. 2002. xii+248 pp.; 16 pp. plates. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0518-3.

Emily Eells's study formulates and explores a sexual and aesthetic identity which she terms 'Anglosexuality'. The 'Anglosexual' is Proust's third or 'intersex', as represented through British cultural (and scientific) intertexts. British culture, in Eells's reading of the novel, becomes a protective, mediating site which enabled Proust to portray a...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.