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Jonathan Dollimore.
Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault.
Publisher: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992 reprint (previously issued 1991).
ISBN 0198112696;
ISBN-13: 9780198112693.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printed in the UK by Butler & Tanner.
Size: 155x233x23mm.
Page count: x,388pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some scuffs and marks on the covers, some wear at the edges and corners; spine wrinkled, but not noticeably creased from reading; some mild bumping to the top corner at the back end of the book; previous owner’s name on the half-title page, but the the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £10.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £26.00]
Weight without packaging: 703g.

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No medieval emphasis. Contents: Wilde & Gide in Algiers; Some parameters; Becoming authentic; Wilde's transgressive aesthetic & contemporary cultural politics; Re-encounters; Politics of containment; Tragedy & containment; Towards the paradoxical perverse & the perverse dynamic; Augustine — perversion & privation; Othello — sexual difference & internal deviation; Freud’s theory of sexual perversion; Deconstructing Freud; Polymorphous perverse to the perverse dynamic; Perversion, power, & social control; Thinking the perverse dynamic; Homophobia — Sexual/political deviance — Theories of sexual difference; Subjectivity & transgression; Cross-dressing in Early Modern England; Post/modern — Wilde, Genet, Orton, & others; Desire & difference.

Illustrations: 1 monochrome text figure
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 23pp
Index: yes

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