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Publication: Lambda Book Report
Publication Date: 01-NOV-04
Format: Online - approximately 1054 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Lavender lit.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture

By David Bergman

Columbia University Press

ISBN 0-231-13051-1

PB, $24.95, 304 pp.

Virginia Woolf, in the oft-quoted paean to her fellow Bloomsbury writers, observed memorably, "On or about December, 1910, human character changed." It is a grandiose claim, but one that has particular applicability to gatherings of writerly figures that, through fault or design, morphed into a genuine, epochal literary movement. In his recent study The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture, David Bergman charts this progression by showing how a loosely connected group of gay men, all writers who had already proved themselves in the publishing arena, came together to form what could be considered one of the most important and influential literary movements in queer writing. But as with all seminal literary movements, the influence and importance of the Violet Quill writers brought a significant amount of...

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