The Dedalus Book of Sexual Ambiguity: Sexuality & Masquerade

Author: Emma Wilson

Cover illustration: Paul Kilsby  

A wide-ranging anthology which includes the gender shifting of Woolf's Orlando and Michele Roberts's Georgina, the intellectualised longings of Proust and Barthes, and the theatricality of Wilde's Dorian Gray, as well as extracts from Anais Nin, Marguerite Duras and many more, making this a sumptuous array of morsels at the highbrow end of erotic literature.

Andrew Crumey in Scotland on Sunday

The editor, Emma Wilson, has written a telling introduction to embrace this highly personal collection which she calls a celebration of masquerade, and some of the shorter pieces - like Anais Nin's The Swimmer - are small gems of erotic androgyny.

Colin Spencer in Gay Times

Anthology of tales of cross-dressing, role-playing and gender-bending from the likes of Balzac, Angela Carter, Anais Nin, Djuna Barnes, Rachilde, Tournier, Wilde etc. An altogether better class of filth from the Uk's specialist publishers of decadent literature.

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