Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England : literary representations in historical context
Claude J. Summers (Editor)
10 essays discussing the problems of discerning and defining homosexuality in texts of earlier ages. The difficulty arises from historical pressures against writing opening about same-sex emotions and relationships. A comparison of the language of the literary piece to the vocabulary of the era is often analyzed
Print Book, English, 1992
Haworth Press/Harrington Park Press, New York, 1992
Aufsatzsammlung
222 pages ; 23 cm
9781560242956, 9781560230199, 1560242957, 1560230193
25628204
"Masculine love," Renaissance writing, and the "new invention" of homosexuality / Joseph Cady
Tradition and the individual sodomite: Barnfield, Shakespeare, and subjective desire / Gregory W. Bredbeck
Body, costume, and desire in Christopher Marlowe / Gregory Woods
Verse letters to T.W. from John Donne: "By you my love is sent" / George Klawitter
Lesbian erotics: The utopian trope of Donne's "Sapho to Philaenis" / Janel Mueller
Sodomy and kingcraft in Urania and Antony and Cleopatra / Ellis Hanson
Not since Sappho: The erotic in poems of Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn / Arlene Stiebel
Seeing sodomy: Fanny Hill's blinding vision / Kevin Kopelson
The sodomitical muse: Fanny Hill and the rhetoric of crossdressing / Donald H. Mengay
"The voice of nature" in Gray's Elegy / George E. Haggerty
"Has also been published as Journal of homosexuality, volume 23, numbers 1/2, 1992"--Title page verso