Author: Dennis Altman

Dennis Altman

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May-June 2021
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A Paradox of Victorian Sex

By Andrew Holleran: OUTRAGES, by Naomi Wolf, BEGINS in the rare book room of the Morgan Library in New York, where Naomi Wolf has gone to read the manuscript of an unpublished poem that Victorian critic John Addington Symonds wrote at Oxford after falling in love with a classmate—though you might also say that the book began the day Wolf was still a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford …

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Male Bonding in the Middle Ages

By Vernon Rosario: The richness of Byzantium was not just in its gilded surfaces but also in its gender, racial, and sexual diversity—befitting for this crossroads of two continents and myriad cultures and religions.

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The Company of ‘Whoops, M’dear’

By Laurence Senelick: The catchphrase seems to have caught on … for when Bessie McCoy performed in The Follies of 1911, a large balloon behind her read “Woops [sic] my dear.” More to the point is its appearance in Sewell Ford’s 1912 slang novel Trying Out Torchy (Torchy is a street-smart New York office boy)

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The Snubbing of Bertram Cope

Bertram Cope’s Year is clearly indebted to the conventions of romantic comedy and the comedy of manners rather than to the tradition of the bildungsroman or coming-of-age novel.
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