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Notes on "Camp"
1964 essay by Susan Sontag
"Notes on 'Camp'" is a 1964 essay by Susan Sontag that brought the aesthetic sensibility known as "camp" to mainstream consciousness.[1][2]
Background
"Notes on 'Camp'" was first published as an essay in 1964, and was her first contribution to the Partisan Review.[3] The essay attracted interest in Sontag.
The essay was republished in 1966 in Sontag's debut collection of essays, Against Interpretation.[4] The essay considers meanings and connotations of the word "camp".[2]
Synopsis
The essay is structured with a brief introduction, followed by a list of 58 "notes" on what camp is, or might be.
Christopher Isherwood is mentioned in Sontag's essay: "Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel The World in the Evening (1954), [camp] has hardly broken into print."[2] In Isherwood's novel two characters are discussing the meaning of camp,
