Slum or Arcadia? Hungary as “Other Space” in Imre by Edward Prime-Stevenson

dc.contributor.authorBojti, Zsolt
dc.date.issued2020-06-24
dc.description.abstractThis essay substantiates the reasons why Edward Prime-Stevenson’s novelette, Imre (1906), which is considered to be the first openly gay novel in English with a happy ending, is set in an imaginary Budapest called Szent-Istvánhely. The paper suggests that there is a list of references to Hungary in late-Victorian gay literature that Prime-Stevenson builds upon. Another common element in these works is that the location, more specifically, the city landscape, plays an important role that maps the gay city and reflects on the English slumming culture in the East End. The paper substantiates the claim that Prime-Stevenson’s fictional Budapest functions as a Foucauldian heterotopias, which can juxtapose and reconcile oppositions coming from associations with Western and Eastern cultures, the slum and an Arcadia, respectively. (ZsB)en
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dc.identifier.citationHungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 25 No. 1 (2019) ,
dc.identifier.eissn2732-0421
dc.identifier.issn1218-7364
dc.identifier.issue1
dc.identifier.jtitleHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2437/294828en
dc.identifier.volume25
dc.languageen
dc.relationhttps://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7177
dc.rights.accessOpen Access
dc.rights.ownerHungarian Journal of English and American Studies
dc.subjectEdward Prime-Stevensonen
dc.subjectVictorian gay literatureen
dc.titleSlum or Arcadia? Hungary as “Other Space” in Imre by Edward Prime-Stevensonen
dc.typefolyóiratcikkhu
dc.typearticleen
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