Closeted Writing And Lesbian And Gay Literature
Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-century
David M. Robinson
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 between the classical, early modern, eighteenth-century, and even modern periods.Among the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century authors and texts examined here are Mme de Murat, Les Memoires De Madame La Comtesse De M*** (1697); John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49); Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748); Nicolas Chorier and Jean Nicolas, L’Academie des dames (1680); Delarivier Manley, The New Atalantis (1709); and Isaac de Benserade, Iphis et Iante (1637). Classical texts brought into the discussion include Juvenal’s Satires; Lucian’s Erotes; and, most importantly, Ovid’s Metamorphoses.Casting its net broadly yet exploring deeply-poems, plays, novels, and more; from the serious to the satiric, the polite to the pornographic; well-known and little-known; written in English, French, and Latin; published in early modern and eighteenth-century Britain and France; plus key classical texts-this study engages with the historiography of sexuality as a whole.
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| ISBN | 9780754655503 |
| Genre | Literary Criticism; Literary History |
| Copyright Date | 2006 |
| Publication Date | Jul-06 |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing Limited |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 295 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | European Literature; Gays’ Writings; Gays’ Writings/ History And Criticism |
| BookID | 2171 |
