The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy 9780691198231, 9780691201542, 0691198233

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet―and how it fired the imaginations

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The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy
9780691198231, 9780691201542, 0691198233

A literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet—and how it fired the imaginations

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Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United St

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The history of the water closet is a social history in itself, with many curious aspects. It is also a story of ingeniou

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In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an i

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In The Digital Closet, Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything

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