The homosexual revival of Renaissance style, 1850-1930
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The homosexual revival of Renaissance style, 1850-1930
(Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Bibliography: p. 213-227
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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.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: REVIVING RENAISSANCE INDIVIDUALISM Consummate Criminals: Nineteenth-Century Renaissance Historiography and the Homosexual Individualist Inverts: Self-Realization as a Liberatory Sexual Discourse at the Turn of the Century PART II: STYLING QUEER PERSONALITIES Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde's Renaissance Self-Fashioning The Erotics of Fame
- or, How Thomas Mann Conquered the Renaissance Orlando Emergent: Vita Sackville-West's Renaissance Personae Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index
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