A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the ‘mystic’ former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner of an entirely new profession, and member of the Club of Queer Trades. (Summary by David Barnes)
1. George Bernard Shaw – THE SERENADE 1 1_01 - 1_08 00:24 2. Virginia Woolf – THE LEGACY 2 2_01 - 2_08 00:24 3. James Joyce – EVELINE 3 3_01 - 3_05 00:14 4. James Joyce – A PAINFUL CASE 4 4_01 - 4_11 00:31 5. Rudyard Kipling – THE GARDENER 5 5_01 - 5_12 00:33 (Read by Benjamin Sargent) 6. Charles Dickens – THE BARON OF GROGZWIG 6 6_01 - 6_10 00:27 7. Charles Dickens – THE QUEER CHAIR 7 7_01 - 7_13 00:39 (Read by Cora McDonald)
Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age: The Penetrating Eye
Queering Gothic in the Romantic Age argues that Gothic writing of the Romantic period is queer. Discussing a variety of texts, it studies how contemporary queer theory can help us to read the obliqueness and invisibility of same-sex desire in a culture of vigilance over transgressive sexuality.
This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the complex multiplicity of sexual desire. The book examines the long overlooked figures of bachelor fathers, martially resistant men, and male nurses. It explores Dickens's attention to a longing, not to reproduce, but to nurture, his interest in healing touch, and his articulation, over the course of his career, of homoerotic desire.
G.K. Chesterton - The Club of Queer Trades (Radio adaptation) + full text in pdf This radio adaptation "The Club of Queer Trades" dramatised by Simon Littlefield and directed by Simon Nichols consist of 6 episodes.
This excellent half-parody of the detective story (particularly of the Sherlock Holmes stories) is a good introduction to the whimsical, off-beat style of G. K. Chesterton, one of the most unusual authors of British detective fiction of the late 19th and early 20th century.