James Branch Cabell (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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A brilliant student born into an elite Virginia family, Cabell was destined both in his personal life and in his writings to challenge staid visions of sexuality and sexual taboo. Among the controversial aspects of his fiction were his interest in the occult and his parodies of modern Southern aristocracy. The latter were often comic treatments of upper-crust society thinly disguised in sexually suggestive allegories of life in the Middle Ages or as refashionings of classical myths. Cabell taught French and Greek and worked in journalism, as a genealogist, and...
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