Y. Ivory
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2009
9781349305483
The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2009
ISBN13: 9781349305483
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349305483
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: REVIVING RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUALISM Consummate Criminals: Nineteenth-Century Renaissance Historiography and the Homosexual Individualist Inverts: Self-Realization as a Liberatory Sexual Discourse at the Turn of the Century PART II: STYLING QUEER PERSONALITIES Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde's Renaissance Self-Fashioning The Erotics of Fame; or, How Thomas Mann Conquered the Renaissance Orlando Emergent: Vita Sackville-West's Renaissance Personae Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index