WARM BROTHERS: queer theory and the age of Goethe

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. cloth, x, 240 pages.illustrated, 16 pp bibliography, index, as new, CONTENTS; Queering the eighteenth century, Warm signifiers: eighteenth-century codes of male-male desire -- Jean Paul's oriental homosexualities -- Literary cures in Wieland and Moritz -- Pederasty and pharmaka in Goethe's works -- Performing gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian transvestites - Male members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust -- Thomas Mann's queer Schiller -- Lichtenberg's queer fragments: sexuality and the aphorism -- Conclusion: made in Germany: modern sexuality. "Warm Brothers analyzes classical German writers through the lens of queer theory. Beginning with sodomitical subcultures in eighteenth-century Germany, it examines the traces of an emergent homosexuality and shows the importance of the eighteenth century for the nineteenth-century sexologists who were to provide the framework for modern conceptualizations of sexuality. One of the first books to document male-male desire in eighteenth-century German literature and culture. Warm Brothers offers a much-needed reappraisal of the classical canon and the history of sexuality." (from the d.j., ) Size: 8 vo,..