Love's litany : the writing of modern homoerotics /
Loves' Litany is the first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, and examines the ways in which nineteenth-century conceptions of love have shaped contemporary conceptions of lesbian and gay subjectivity. The book focuses on four features...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[1994]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Table of contents Publisher description |
| Summary: | Loves' Litany is the first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, and examines the ways in which nineteenth-century conceptions of love have shaped contemporary conceptions of lesbian and gay subjectivity. The book focuses on four features of romantic love that are central to both nineteenth-century erotic philosophy and twentieth-century homoeroticism: complementary merger, the idea that "opposites attract"; love-death (Liebestod), the figuration of love as fatal union; Wertherism, the association of love with sadness, solitude, and suicide; and "crystallization," Stendhal's term for believing a beloved to be perfect. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. |
| Physical Description: | viii, 194 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliography (pages 177-189) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0804722994 9780804722995 0804723451 9780804723459 |