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History’s Queer Stories : Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War

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As arguably the best-knownexample of eccentricity of his time, Quentin Crisprecaps his experiences before, during and after the Second World War in theau-to-biography The Naked Civil Servant(1968). Heinvites the reader to join him in being amazed, shocked, flabbergasted and in the end enlightened for having glimpsed into a world completely detached from anything considered ‘normal’.Throughout his life, Crisp–born in Sutton, England, as Denis Charles Pratt(1908-1999) –lived as a “self-confessed”, “self-evident” (5) and consequently outcasthomosexual,who wore make-up, high heels and strove for effeminacy long before signs of an organised gay liberationmovementwere detectablein Western Europe.

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Series Title

Queer Studies Volume 19

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823 NOB h

Publisher

: ., 2018

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-8394-4543-3

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823

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Subject(s)

English fiction

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Natalie Marena Nobitz

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maya

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