Kenneth Borris / George S. Rousseau (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

Beschreibung

A collection of essays which challenge the view that the scientific basis of same-sex attraction is a modern invention and illustrates how many of the ideas about homosexual attraction predated the enlightenment.

Autor

Kenneth Borris is Professor of English at McGill University and is a recipient of the MacCaffrey Award and a Canada Research Fellowship. His previous books are Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance (Routledge, 2004), Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature: Heroic Form in Sidney, Spenser, and Milton (2001), Spenser's Poetics of Prophecy (1991), and a co-edited collection, The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (2001). George Rousseau is Co-Director of the Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University. His previous publications include Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility (2004), Framing and Imagining Disease in Cultural History (2003) Pre- and Post-Modern Discourses: medical, scientific, anthropological (Manchester, 1991) and, with Roy Porter, Gout: The Patrician Malady (1998).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780415446921
• ISBN-10: 0415446929
• Artikelnr.: 31082930