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- Book Title
- Scarlet Pansy
- Publication Name
- A Scarlet Pansy
- Title
- A Scarlet Pansy
- Contributor
- Robert J. Corber (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0823272567
- EAN
- 9780823272563
- ISBN
- 9780823272563
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Genre
- History, Social Science, Fiction
- Topic
- United States / 20th Century, Gender Studies, Mystery & Detective / General, United States / General
- Release Date
- 01/09/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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First published in 1932, A Scarlet Pansy is an extraordinarily vivid and richly textured depiction of American queer life in the early twentieth century, tracing the coming-of-age of androgynous Fay Etrange. Born in small-town Pennsylvania and struggling with her difference, Fay eventually accepts her gender and sexual nonconformity and immerses herself in the fairy subculture of New York City. A self-proclaimed "oncer"--never tricking with same man twice--she immerses herself in the nightclubs, theaters, and street life of the city, cavorting with kindred spirits including female impersonators, streetwalkers, and hustlers as well as other fairies and connoisseurs of rough trade. While reveling in these exploits she becomes a successful banker and later attends medical school, where she receives training in obstetrics. There she also develops her life's ambition to find a cure for gonorrhea, a disease supposedly "fastened on mankind as a penalty for enjoying love." A Scarlet Pansy stands apart from similar fiction of its time--as well as that of the ensuing decades--by celebrating rather than pathologizing its effeminate and sexually adventurous protagonist. In this edition, republished for the first time in its original unexpurgated form, Robert J. Corber examines the way in which it flew in the face of other literature of the time in its treatment of gender expression and same-sex desire. He places the novel squarely within its social and cultural context of nearly a century ago while taking into account the book's checkered publication history as well as the question of the novel's unknown author. Much more than cultural artifact, A Scarlet Pansy remains a uniquely delightful and penetrating work of literature, resonating as much with present-day culture as it is illuminating of our understanding of queer history and challenging our notions of what makes a man a woman, and vice-versa.
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Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823272567
ISBN-13
9780823272563
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221550180
Product Key Features
Book Title
Scarlet Pansy
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Gender Studies, Mystery & Detective / General, United States / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
History, Social Science, Fiction
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3537.C979
Reviews
A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange., "A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange." --Michael Bronski, Harvard University, A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introductionplaces the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting theemotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of itshero/heroine, Fay Etrange., "A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange."-Michael Bronski, Harvard University, "A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and erotic adventures of its hero/ heroine Fay Etrange."--Michael Bronski, Harvard University, "A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange."-Michael Bronski, Harvard University "A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and sex."--Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida, "A Scarlet Pansy makes an important queer intervention in the historical record of how to be gay. It is a great pleasure to be brought out into pre-Stonewall gay culture along with the protagonist, and to see this combination of camp and sex." -----Nicholas de Villiers, University of North Florida, A dizzying mix of low camp and high drama, A Scarlet Pansy is at once laugh-out-loud funny, startling, odd, and ultimately--through the lens of our queer world today--very moving. Robert J. Corber's insightful and astute Introduction places the novel in a clear historical context while continually highlighting the emotional power and the camp glory of the novel and the erotic adventures of its hero/heroine, Fay Etrange. ---Michael Bronski, Harvard University
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-936862
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Dewey Edition
23
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