...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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