Beckford’s Vathek delineates heteronormative and homoerotic impulses through a kind of Orientalist discourse. The two main questions follow:
Beckford’s Vathek delineates heteronormative and homoerotic impulses through a kind of Orientalist discourse. The two main questions follow: First, how does Beckford manipulate Orientalism in the novel to convince you of its “eastern” origins? Second, how does Orientalism allow Beckford to pursure the homoerotic or forbidden sexual impulses, ones you would never see in more … Read more