`` `The Triumph of the Epicene Style': Nightwood and Camp''

Nightwood (1936), American modernist Djuna Barnes' most famous novel, is notorious as much for its subject matter as for the unreadability of its prose. However, if both gender and genre are undoubtedly ``troubled'' in this masterpiece of sexual-textual impropriety, the two are surprisingly rarely apprehended conjointly. This article argues for a positive re-evaluation of the role of the camp in Nightwood as the novel's key aesthetic expression of deviant sexuality.