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- Title
Repression,Inversion and Modernity: A Freudian Reading of Henry Blake Fuller's Bertram Cope's Year.
- Authors
Gumery, Keith
- Abstract
Presents literary criticism on "Bertram Cope's Year" by Henry Blake Fuller. Influence of Freud on the development of Modernism and literature; Free expression of sexuality in the work of Fuller; Aspects of his private life; Discussion on homosexuality, and society's reaction to it; First novel dealing with the theme of overt homosexuality; Novel as an act of sublimation of Fuller and his homosexuality; Discussion of the theme of male love in various previous works; Criticism of Fuller's timid approach to theme; Lack of a balanced view of gay men in this era; Approach towards staying free from moralizing or justification; Efforts towards avoidance of the problems of such relationships; Protection of a sense of self-ego in search of self-identification as being central to all Freudian theories; Desire for privacy as the reason for failure in claiming a permanent place in the canon; Details of his various letters to his friends proving his homosexuality; Expression of his own psyche in the fictional theme.
- Subjects
CRITICISM; BERTRAM Cope's Year (Book); FULLER, Henry Blake, 1857-1929; REPRESSION (Psychology) in literature; HOMOSEXUALITY; 20TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2002, Vol 25, Issue 3/4, p40
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/jml.2003.0017