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Men in Love - (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) by George Haggerty (Paperback)

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  • Love in all its cultural and personal complexity is the focus of this book.
  • About the Author: George Haggerty is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside.
  • 224 Pages
  • Literary Criticism, LGBT
  • Series Name: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies

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About the Book



Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century archetypes of same-sex relations in which sensibility and sexuality emerge as interdependent.



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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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Men in Love makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the period. This is a fine example of gay studies casting light on a whole culture.--Gregory Woods "Times Literary Supplement (London)"

George Haggerty's book Men in Love is a complex and persuasive discussion of the phenomenon of public expression of male-male love.--Kathleen Kincade "The Eighteenth Century: A Current Biblography"

Like Rowland's, the book should be seen as one vista on the trek to recover how modern Western sexuality evolved its particular taxonomy. Highly recommended, particularly for graduate students through faculty.--D. N. Mager "Choice"



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.01 Inches (H) x 6.01 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .79 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: LGBT
Series Title: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: George Haggerty
Language: English
Street Date: May 6, 1999
TCIN: 94257637
UPC: 9780231110433
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-0021
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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