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"""Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers’ Federation"" ""The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject.""---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies ""Bobker’s study succeeds in illuminating a fascinating topic with a wealth of detail pulled from various disciplines. . . it also shows the way monographs may go beyond a reconstruction of the past to include examining what this version of the past means for the present.""---Rachel Ramsey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction ""Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended."" * Choice Reviews * ""[This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature.""---Sue Nicholson, pepysdiary.com ""Smart, enjoyable, and ground-breaking.""---Mary Peace, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830"

Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject. ---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies Bobker's study succeeds in illuminating a fascinating topic with a wealth of detail pulled from various disciplines. . . it also shows the way monographs may go beyond a reconstruction of the past to include examining what this version of the past means for the present. ---Rachel Ramsey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended. * Choice Reviews * [This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature. ---Sue Nicholson, pepysdiary.com

Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject. ---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended. * Choice Reviews * [This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature. ---Sue Nicholosn, The Diary of Samuel Pepys journal

Finalist for the Mavis Gallant Award for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation The Closet is a major accomplishment that promises to be the definitive word on its subject. ---Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Eighteenth-Century Studies Bobker's study succeeds in illuminating a fascinating topic with a wealth of detail pulled from various disciplines. . . it also shows the way monographs may go beyond a reconstruction of the past to include examining what this version of the past means for the present. ---Rachel Ramsey, Eighteenth-Century Fiction Providing a careful look at 18th-century historical and fictional texts, Bobker expands contemporary and commonplace ideas of the closet, its early use, and how it was initially developed. . . . Recommended. * Choice Reviews * [This book] is a kind of cabinet of curiosities in itself, a curated collection to delight, educate and intrigue the reader and including in its wide scope both architectural and social history, queer theory and classic English literature. ---Sue Nicholson, pepysdiary.com Smart, enjoyable, and ground-breaking. ---Mary Peace, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830

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Danielle Bobker is associate professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal.

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