Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: literary representations in historical context

Abstract

Contents Introduction * Masculine Love, Renaissance Writing, and the New Invention of Homosexuality * Tradition and the Individual Sodomite: Barnfield, Shakespeare, and Subjective Desire * Body, Costume, and Desire in Christopher Marlowe * Verse Letters to T.W. from John Donne: By You My Love is Sent * Lesbian Erotics: Utopian Trope of Donne's Sappho to Philaenis * Sodomy and Kingcraft in Urania and Antony and Cleopatra * Not Since Sappho: Erotic in Poems of Katherine Philips and Aphra Behn * Seeing Sodomy: Fanny Hill's Blinding Visions * Sodomitical Muse: Fanny Hill and the Rhetoric of Crossdressing * The Voice of Nature in Gray's Elegy: In Memory of Thomas Stehling * Reference Notes Included * Index

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