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[ricardienne]

I randomly picked up a volume of American Literary History this afternoon while procrastinating, and found an article about the Little Lord Fauntleroy phenomenon, and queering LLF, and latent homo-eroticism brought out in the original illustrations, and the velvet suits being a way for mothers to enact gender-play with their young sons.

On the one hand, I REALLY DID NOT WANT TO THINK ABOUT THIS RE: A BELOVED CHILDHOOD BOOK.

On the other, how have I missed all of that for so long?

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[angevin2.livejournal.com]

That is EXACTLY how Beth reacted when she summarized the plot of Puck of Pook's Hill to me and I, who has not read it, went "So Richard and Hugh are totally gay, right?"

[achyvi.livejournal.com]

Gender-play because they are soft, or what?