Queer people : negotiations and expressions of homosexuality, 1700-1800 / edited by Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mounsey, Chris, 1959-

Gonda, Caroline.

Series:

Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Homosexuality and literature--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Gay people in literature.

Homosexuality--History--18th century.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--Social life and customs--18th century.

Gay people.

Gay people--Social life and customs.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

305 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2007]

Contents:

Queer people : an introduction / Caroline Gonda and Chris Mounsey

Homosexual context and identity : reflections on the reception of Handel as Orpheus / Ellen T. Harris

Queerness, class, and sexuality / Sally O'Driscoll

Sex and shopping with Frances Burney / Conrad Brunström

People, place and performance : theoretically revisiting Mother Clap's molly house / Tanya Cassidy

How (not) to queer Boswell / Thomas A. King

Cruising Crusoe : diving into the wreck of sexuality / Joseph Campana

London's homosexuals in the eighteenth century : rhetoric versus practice / Netta Goldsmith

Dark deeds at night / Ruth Herman

Queer labor : genius and class in eighteenth-century pastoral / Bridget Keegan

Love between men in Jennens' and Handel's Saul / Ruth Smith

Conversion panic, circumcision and sexual anxiety : Penelope Aubin's queer writing / Chris Mounsey

Queer doings in Oxford : the Christian's new warning piece (1753) / Caroline Gonda

Having it both ways? : the eighteenth-century menage-à-trois / Chris Roulston.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780838756676

0838756670

OCLC:

71809975