David M. Robinson

Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention more generally), this study explores the representation of female and male homosexuality in late sixteenth- through mid-eighteenth-century British and French literature. The author also uncovers and analyzes long-term continuities in the representation of same-sex love, sex, and desire. Covering multiple genres (poems, plays, novels) and modes (such as satire, scandal, and pornography), this study engages with the historiography of sexuality as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351950954
• Artikelnr.: 48419679

Autorenporträt

David M. Robinson was Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, USA, where he taught English literature and Lesbian & Gay Studies. He now teaches English literature at The College Preparatory School, in Oakland, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Part I: Intentionality: Closeted Homosexual Writing:
Chapter 1: Closeted writing before 'the closet'; Chapter 2: 'Philips-Lover'
and the abominable Madame de Murat; Chapter 3: The closeting of closeting:
Cleland, Smollett, sodomy, and the critics. Part II: Intentionality:
Closeted Homophobic Writing: Chapter 4: Pornographic homophobia: L'Academie
des dames and the deconstructing lesbian; Chapter 5: 'For how can they be
guilty?': the sophisticated homophobia of Manley's New Atalantis. Part III:
Continuity: Chapter 6: Metamorphosis and homosexuality I: Ovid's 'Iphis and
Ianthe' and related tales; Chapter 7: Metamorphosis and homosexuality II:
Iphis, Ianthe, and others on the early modern stage. Postscript;
Bibliography; Index.