“Zsolt Bojti’s Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature: Wilde, Stenbock, Prime-Stevenson is a welcome contribution to nineteenth-century studies. Bojti’s re/discovery of the synergies between these thinkers and writers is rich and erudite; and his painstaking investigation, in particular, into the elusive Prime-Stevenson’s life and works is pioneering. Bojti’s archival findings are presented engagingly; and his close readings are revelatory. I’ve learned much from Queer Reading Practices and Sexology. This is the work of a marvellous scholar at the top of his game.”— Tom Ue, FRHistS, Assistant Professor, Cape Breton University, Canada“This book provides scholars and students with a much-needed critical resource on queer literature and sexology at the end of the nineteenth century. It changes the way we think about queer literature’s contribution to fin-de-siècle sexual science, and vice versa; better yet, its bold interdisciplinary analysis pushes us to rethink the confines of period or national literatures—encouraging us to read canonical and non-canonical texts alongside each other in order to gain a richer sense of the modern invention of homosexuality and the polymath reading practices as embraced by our queer Victorian subjects. Queer Reading Practices and Sexology in Fin-de-Siècle Literature poses a significant contribution to literary studies and queer cultural histories alike.”— S. Brooke Cameron, Associate Professor, Queen’s University, Canada“Homosexuality was a neologism coined by a Hungarian, so it is entirely fitting that, at precisely the point it was becoming the word of choice for same-sex attraction, there was a literary fashion for hungarophile/homophile literature. This book gives a lively account of three writers—Wilde, Stenbock, and Prime Stevenson—who deployed Hungarianness as a queer motif on either side of the fin de siècle.”— Douglas Pretsell, Keele University, UK
