Homosexuals in history : a study of ambivalence in society, literature and the arts / A.L. Rowse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowse, A. L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997, author.

Contributor:

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Biography.

Gay men.

Male homosexuality--History.

Male homosexuality.

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 346 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dorset Press, 1983.

Summary:

Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, King James I, Francis Bacon, Frederick the Great, Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev, Ernst Rohm, and E.M. Forster. The legacies they left to the world are as varied as their talents and temperaments, yet all shared a single predilection -- homosexuality. Now one of the most foremost historians of our time provides a thought provoking look at these and other homosexual men of genius in society, politics, literature and the arts in this first serious study of the problems and contributions of the homosexual through the ages.

Contents:

Medieval prelude

Renaissance figures

Elizabethans and their contemporaries

Francis Bacon and the court of James I

Courts and coronets

Frederick the Great and some Germans

Regency connoisseurs

Russia and some Russians

Eminent Victorians

French poets and novelists

From Ludwig II to Rohm

Ewardians and Georgians

The Great War

Cambridge apostles

A handful of Americans

Cosmopolitan.

Notes:

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

Other Format:

Online version: Rowse, A.L. (Alfred Leslie), 1903-1997. Homosexuals in history.

ISBN:

0880290110

9780880290111

OCLC:

19368893