Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature

Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature PDF Author: David M. Robinson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754655503
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
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.