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Desire

A Memoir

Jonathan Dollimore

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English
Rowman & Littlefield International
05 May 2021
In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the gay subcultures of late twentieth-century New York, Brighton and Sydney, Dollimore weaves a candid, nuanced narrative of life in a newly liberated and hedonistic world, soon to be devastated by AIDS.

Effortless blending the tragic and comic, Dollimore’s unique voice relates a life haunted and torn by loss, and the at once intensely personal yet universal experience of suffering and longing.
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Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield International
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 201mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   277g
ISBN:   9781786615008
ISBN 10:   1786615002
Pages:   248
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Jonathan Dollimore is a literary theorist, specialising in the fields of Renaissance literature (especially drama), art, censorship and the history of ideas, and a trailblazer in the study of gender and queer theory. At the University of Sussex, he co-founded the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence. He later became Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Dollimore is credited with making major interventions in debates on sexuality and desire, transgression, perversion and decadence within cultural theory.

Reviews for Desire: A Memoir

"Jonathan Dollimore, a working class man who became one of our most thoughtful intellectuals, has written a memoir that meditates on sex, identity, boredom and ecstasy. It is a rich, sad, wise book. -- Edmund White, author of ""Our Young Man"""


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