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Vickers, Emma

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“…23 The historian Steven Runciman, who was himself homosexual, knew Benson in the 1920s and said that he found the older man hard to connect with. 24 In a similar way, the characters in Benson's satirical novels are not presented in ways that invite emotional empathy and sexual identification. 25 Rather their universe is one of amoral scheming achieved within the realm of a carefully stylised comedy of manners.…”

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Early Twentieth-CenturyVogue, George Wolfe Plank andThe Freaks of Mayfair

Janes

2017

Visual Culture in Britain

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Early Twentieth-Century Vogue, George Wolfe Plank and the 'Freaks of Mayfair'. Abstract:Vogue was one of the most influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century. In the 1920s its British edition, launched in 1916, became a focus for various forms of queer visual and cultural expression. The origins of the related 'amusing style', which delighted in camp display, can be traced to the romantic and artistic collaboration between the American artist George Wolfe Plank and the British writer E. F. Benson during World War One. The illustrations that Plank produced for Benson's book of satirical sketches of life in London's high society, The Freaks of Mayfair (1916), shed light on the camp images that Plank designed for the covers of both the American and British editions of the magazine. Therefore, Plank can be understood to have played a key role in the development of queer visual culture during the early twentieth century.

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Section: Queer Lives: Benson and Plankmentioning

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Early Twentieth-CenturyVogue, George Wolfe Plank andThe Freaks of Mayfair

Janes

2017

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