| Description |
xxxvii, 829 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Between men--between women |
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Between men--between women.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page [xxxv]-xxxvii). |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Inventing Eros -- 1. The earliest texts -- Mesopotamia -- The Old Testament -- 2. Eros in Arcadia : Greek literature -- Legendary lovers -- Theorizing desire : inventing Paiderastia -- Musa Paidika : Greek homoerotic poetry -- Affairs of the heart : romance and debate -- 3. Rome : love poems and satire -- Latin literature from the first century B.C.E. to the second century C.E. -- pt. 2. Inventing Sodom -- 4. Inventing Sodom : introduction -- Creating Sodomites, making friends -- 5. Inventing Sodom : scripture and law from the Sodom story -- The Old Testament -- The New Testament -- Policing Sodomites : religious commentary and civil law -- England -- 6. God made our natures full of love -- Romantic friendship between men in literature from the fourth to the fourteenth century of the Common Era -- From The Leiden manuscript (12th cent.) -- The story of Lancelot and Galehaut -- The story of Amis and Amile (13th cent.) -- pt. 3. Platonic dialogues -- 7. Platonic dialogues : introduction -- Friendship, homoeroticism, and the Renaissance -- 8. The Italian Renaissance : amor Socraticus -- 9. Affectionate shepherds : English homoerotic literature (1500-1685) -- pt. 4. Reinventing Sodomites -- 10. Introduction : satirizing Sodomites -- English homophobia (1628-1810) -- 11. Natural passions : resisting homophobia -- English literature (1785-1833) -- 12. Children of Sodom : eighteenth-century French literature -- 13. Uranian Renaissance : German literature (1820-1869) -- |
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pt. 5. Heirs of Eros -- 14. Romantic friendship and homosexuality in nineteenth-century English poetry (1850-1900) -- Inventing a language -- 15. Inventing themselves : imagining "homosexuals" in English fiction and theory (1890-1895) -- 16. Symbolic Sodomite : society, Oscar Wilde, and the law -- 17. Athletic love : English literature (1896-1969) -- pt. 6. Modern love -- 18. Inventing homosexuals : European writing (1870-1969) -- 19. Les Monstres Sacrés : France (1870-1945) -- 20. Vaterlandslosen : Germany (1899-1939) -- 21. Erotic revolutionaries : Russian literature (1836-1922) -- 22. Eros in Egypt : Alexandrian songs -- 23. Southern dawn : Italian literature in the twentieth century -- 24. Amor Oscuro : Spanish literature -- 25. Latin American and Cuban literature -- Paradiso -- pt. 7. Masculine landscapes -- 26. "Serene friendship land" -- American homoerotic texts (1840-1908) -- 27. Camp sites : armies of Androgynes -- American literature (1918-1933) -- pt. 8. Deconstructing "manhood" -- 28. Out of the shadow world -- Inventing and enforcing modern homophobia (1933-1969) -- Lighting the shadow world -- pt. 9. Out there -- 29. Becoming gay -- Out there : gay American literature -- Questions -- Answers -- Celebrations -- Politics -- Grieving -- Surviving. |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award, 1998 |
| Subject |
Gay men -- Literary collections.
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Homosexuality -- Literary collections.
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| Added Author |
Fone, Byrne, 1936-
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| Added Title |
Anthology of gay literature |
| ISBN |
0231096704 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780231096706 cloth alkaline paper |
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0231096712 |
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9780231096713 |
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