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OverviewWhy 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Y. IvoryPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.455kg ISBN: 9780230219977ISBN 10: 0230219977 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 07 May 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsList 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 IndexReviews'The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style is an engaging book, in which the author handles an impressive variety of material, which spans historiography, sexology, biography and literary texts. Academics and students interested in the history of sexuality will find in it a persuasive and welcome addition to the recent scholarship on the ancient Greek roots of nineteenth-century male homoerotic writing.' - Stefano Evangelista, Ravenna 'her [Ivory's] unilateral, comparative approach brings many previously hidden lines of investigation into view...the sheer sweep of material, both mainstream and marginal, is impressive as Ivory melds literary texts and sexology with historiography and biography...[an] undoubtedly valuable work. By a fusion of cultural history with textual readings, close analysis of British and German sexology, and detailed evaluations of the roles of three key figures across genders and nationalities, Ivory consolidates the importance of the Renaissance in the queer self-fashioning of modern gender identities.' - Nick Kneale, Modern Language Notes Author InformationYVONNE IVORY is Assistant Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA. She has taught at SDSU, Duke University, University College Dublin, and the Ruhr University. Her research focuses on the nexus between sexuality and aesthetics, and she has published articles on fin-de-siècle German anarchism, on aestheticism, and on Oscar Wilde's German reception. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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