Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
ISBN: 9780231542760
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Columbia University Press
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Subjects: Literary Studies (20th Century onwards);

Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists between the 1860s and the 1960s.

Christopher Reed is professor of English and visual culture at the Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of many books, including Art and Homosexuality: A History of Ideas (2011) and Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity (2004).

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