The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930 /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 240 pages 1 illustrations) |
| ISBN: | 9780230242432 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/9780230242432 |