The comparator I'd use for Cabell is Eddison; Cabell is inextricably enmeshed in the American Old South, and knew it; Eddison was a terrible fit for any of the roles available to him. (Maybe not strictly gay in the modern sense, but.)
Both of them produced notably skilled writing about a moral vacuum; fantasies of agency with the agency labelled as materially impossible in the present day.
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Date: 2018-10-02 12:19 pm (UTC)Both of them produced notably skilled writing about a moral vacuum; fantasies of agency with the agency labelled as materially impossible in the present day.