Urning : queer identity in the German nineteenth century / Douglas Pretsell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pretsell, Douglas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay activists--Germany--Identity--History--19th century.

Gay activists.

Gay activists--Germany--History--19th century.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book profiles men in Germany and beyond who followed Karl Heinrich Ulrichs and adopted his term "urning"as a personal queer identity in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Front Matter(pp. i-vi)

Table of Contents(pp. vii-viii)

Acknowledgments(pp. ix-x)

Notes on Terminology(pp. xi-2)

Introduction: The Age of the Urning(pp. 3-20)

Chapter One The First Urning: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1825-1895(pp. 23-32)

Chapter Two From Page to Personhood: The Transmission of Urningtum, 1864-1868(pp. 33-49)

Chapter Three Two Trials: Sensation, Horror, and the Urning in the Public Sphere, 1867-1870(pp. 50-67)

Chapter Four Sins of the City: Karl Maria Kertbeny and the Social Cross-Dressers, 1865-1880(pp. 68-90)

Chapter Five The Matchmaker of Switzerland: Jakob Rudolf Forster's Grassroots Activism in Germanic Switzerland, 1878-1897(pp. 93-114)

Chapter Six Queering Psychiatry: Autobiographical Lobbying of Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1864-1901(pp. 115-134)

Chapter Seven Belling the Cat: Adolf Glaser's Discreet Police Liaison in Berlin, 1878-1897(pp. 135-157)

Chapter Eight The Comradely Uranian: John Addington Symonds and the English Translation of the Urning, 1889-1893(pp. 158-179)

Conclusion: The End of the Urning Age(pp. 180-186)

Timeline of Events(pp. 187-196)

Notes(pp. 197-246)

Bibliography(pp. 247-262)

Index(pp. 263-272).

Notes:

Includes bibliography and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Pretsell, Douglas Urning

ISBN:

1-4875-5561-X

1-4875-5563-6

9781487555634