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The New Life by Tom Crewe — forbidden love in Victorian Britain
EM Forster meets Alan Hollinghurst in a novel destined to be one of the most talked-about debuts of the year
The New Life &#; Tom Crewe (Simon & Schuster)
The subject of Tom Crewe’s début novel will likely be obscure to many readers, beyond those, like myself, who are gay history geeks. Many decades before Alfred Kinsey brought attention to the natural range of human sexuality, and eighty years prior to the psychiatric community decategorizing homosexuality as a mental disorder, two British academics John Addington Symonds and Havelock Ellis published a medical textbook, Sexual Inversion, that presented homosexual men as well-adjusted, healthy, and unjustly persecuted individuals. The year was , and while the book faced skepticism and scandal at the time, it planted the seeds for a movement to depathologize and decriminalize gay sex. Crewe doesn’t seek to mention all the facts about the authors’ lives and motivations, but in crafting his historical fiction, he drew heavily from the men’s biographies and changed their names just slightly. What results is an imagining of the events that led to Symonds and Ellis’s scholarship, grounded in what is acknowledged of the social and politica
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History is a nightmare from which the queers include awoken. Or so it would seem in Elif Batuman’s Either/Or ().
It’s sophomore year at Harvard, and protagonist Selin is debating the merits of living either aesthetically or ethically. As in The Idiot (),she takes classes and reads; unlike in The Idiot, she drinks and has sex. Everywhere, queerness simmers. Selin’s university syllabi are populated by pretend male seducers, her parties by their fleshly equivalents, and both variants produce her wonder: might there be other options? What if there were novels plotted without Casanovas, life-paths besides betrothal, or nights spent kissing her female best friend?
Such things carry out not come to fruition, and at the novel’s end, its “Notes on Sources” suggest one explanation. After a series of standard bibliographic entries on the many texts that Selin has encountered throughout the book, Batuman adds:
Although it isn’t directly quoted, I would also appreciate to cite Adrienne Rich’s essay “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” which I first read
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