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Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century
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Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century Hardcover - 1999

by George Haggerty


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Love in all its cultural and personal complexity is the focus of this book. While scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century homoerotic culture have tended to focus on sexual behavior and the much-maligned figure of the sodomite, George E. Haggerty argues that the concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the time. Haggerty considers male "identities" of many kinds: heroic friends, as found in seventeenth-century French romance and Restoration tragedy, and personal friends, as in the erotic relationships of Gray, Walpole, and West; fops and beaus, as depicted in Restoration and early eighteenth-century comedy and various satirical portraits; effeminate sodomites and mollies depicted in literature and sodomy trial accounts throughout the period; men of feeling and other figures in whom sensibility and sexuality are vividly interconnected. He also discusses libertines and sexual aggressors, especially as depicted in the pages of Gothic fiction.

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  • Title Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century
  • Author George Haggerty
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press
  • Date 1999-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780231110426 / 0231110421
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Masculine
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men in literature, Sex in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-47095
  • Dewey Decimal Code 820.935

About the author

George Haggerty is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century and Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form, co-editor (with Bonnie Zimmerman) of Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature, and editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Gay History and Cultures.
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