Love, sex, intimacy, and friendship between men, 1550-1800 / edited by Katherine O'Donnell and Michael O'Rourke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Donnell, Katherine.

O'Rourke, Michael, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--History.

Gay men.

Male friendship--History.

Male friendship.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 206 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in this relatively new field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory, these international, interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history. This book is a timely benchmark in answering and raising questions about male love, sex, friendship, and intimacy in the early modern era. It is a revaluation that takes into account how widely this matter has been debated over the last ten years and is an invaluable contribution to Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies; sexual, social, and cultural history, as well as Early Modern and Enlightenment Studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Among Men

History, Sexuality, and the Return of Affect / David M. Halperin 1

1 "Homoplatonic, Homodepressed, Homomorbid": Some Futher Genealogies of Same-Sex Attraction in Western Civilization / George Rousseau 12

2 Homosexuals in History: A.L. Rowse and the Queer Archive / Alan Stewart 53

3 Male Love and Friendship in the Eighteenth Century / George E. Haggerty 70

In Memoriam

Alan Bray (1948-2001) / Katherine O'Donnell, Michael O'Rourke 82

4 A Traditional Rite for Blessing Friendship / Alan Bray 87

5 The Heterosexual Male in Eighteenth-Century London and his Queer Interactions / Randolph Trumbach 99

6 How Queer Was the Renaissance? / Mario DiGangi 128

7 Can the Sodomite Speak? Sodomy, Satire, Desire, and the Castlehaven Case / Nicholas F. Radel 148

8 (Per)versions of Sappho / Jody Greene 168.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333997433

OCLC:

50244051