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  1. Unspeakable
    a life beyond sexual morality
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    "In this unnerving biography of Norman Douglas, a prolific British novelist, travel writer, and an undisguised and unrepentant pedophile, Rachel Hope Cleves grapples-at length and with feeling-with the interrelated questions of how to write the... more

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "In this unnerving biography of Norman Douglas, a prolific British novelist, travel writer, and an undisguised and unrepentant pedophile, Rachel Hope Cleves grapples-at length and with feeling-with the interrelated questions of how to write the biography of a repulsive man and why. She focuses less on defining who Douglas was than on why Douglas seems so monstrous to us when he often did not to those who knew and (yes) loved him. Cleves does more than sketch the conditions and influence of Douglas's life and work; she probes how changing social norms affect our aesthetic and moral assessments"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226733531
    Subjects: Päderastie
    Other subjects: Douglas, Norman (1868-1952); Douglas, Norman / 1868-1952; Authors, English / Biography; Sodomy / England; Douglas, Norman / 1868-1952; Authors, English; Sodomy; England; Biographies
    Scope: 369 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Unspeakable
    a life beyond sexual morality
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago, Chicago

    Part I. George Norman Douglass -- Crocodiles -- Lizards -- Annetta and Michele -- Elsa -- Capri -- Reflection I -- Part II. Norman Douglas -- Norman Douglas -- London Street Games -- Keeping Faith -- Alone -- Together -- Reflection II -- Part III.... more

    Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe / Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Bibliothek
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    Part I. George Norman Douglass -- Crocodiles -- Lizards -- Annetta and Michele -- Elsa -- Capri -- Reflection I -- Part II. Norman Douglas -- Norman Douglas -- London Street Games -- Keeping Faith -- Alone -- Together -- Reflection II -- Part III. Uncle Norman -- The Pederastic Congress -- A Hymn to Copulation -- Diavolo Incarnato -- Epicurus -- Moving Along -- Reflection III -- Part IV. Heraclitus -- On the Run -- England Is a Nightmare -- Footnote to Capri -- Omnes Eodem Cogimur -- Pinorman versus Grand Man -- Looking Back -- Reflection IV "In this unnerving biography of Norman Douglas, a prolific British novelist, travel writer, and an undisguised and unrepentant pedophile, Rachel Hope Cleves grapples-at length and with feeling-with the interrelated questions of how to write the biography of a repulsive man and why. She focuses less on defining who Douglas was than on why Douglas seems so monstrous to us when he often did not to those who knew and (yes) loved him. Cleves does more than sketch the conditions and influence of Douglas's life and work; she probes how changing social norms affect our aesthetic and moral assessments"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780226733531
    Subjects: Authors, English; Sodomy
    Other subjects: Douglas, Norman (1868-1952)
    Scope: 369 Seiten, Illustrationen
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Unspeakable
    a life beyond sexual morality
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    "In this unnerving biography of Norman Douglas, a prolific British novelist, travel writer, and an undisguised and unrepentant pedophile, Rachel Hope Cleves grapples-at length and with feeling-with the interrelated questions of how to write the... more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    "In this unnerving biography of Norman Douglas, a prolific British novelist, travel writer, and an undisguised and unrepentant pedophile, Rachel Hope Cleves grapples-at length and with feeling-with the interrelated questions of how to write the biography of a repulsive man and why. She focuses less on defining who Douglas was than on why Douglas seems so monstrous to us when he often did not to those who knew and (yes) loved him. Cleves does more than sketch the conditions and influence of Douglas's life and work; she probes how changing social norms affect our aesthetic and moral assessments"--

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226733531
    Subjects: Päderastie
    Other subjects: Douglas, Norman (1868-1952); Douglas, Norman / 1868-1952; Authors, English / Biography; Sodomy / England; Douglas, Norman / 1868-1952; Authors, English; Sodomy; England; Biographies
    Scope: 369 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index