Love between men in English literature /
This is the first book to provide an account of how emotional and sexual relationships between men have been depicted in English literature from the Renaissance to the modern period. Paul Hammond reveals the literary resources which writers used to express love between men in the face of legal and s...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
1996.
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| Summary: | This is the first book to provide an account of how emotional and sexual relationships between men have been depicted in English literature from the Renaissance to the modern period. Paul Hammond reveals the literary resources which writers used to express love between men in the face of legal and social constraints, exploring their strategies for contemplating male beauty, and even the significant silences through which forbidden desires were implied. He devotes considerable attention to major writers such as Marlowe and Shakespeare, Tennyson and Wilde, Forster and Lawrence, and highlights the homoerotic element in the poetry of Wilfred Owen: but he also introduces less familiar texts which cast light on the homosexual culture of their periods. Based on detailed research but lucidly presented, this book is designed for students of literature and for anyone who wishes to explore an imaginative and diverse literary tradition which has often been misrepresented or suppressed. |
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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: | xv, 255 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0312163266 9780312163266 0312163274 9780312163273 0333613805 9780333613801 0333613813 9780333613818 |