Title: Warm brothers : queer theory and the age of Goethe /
Authors: Tobin, Robert Deam.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Literature German.; German literature History and criticism; German literature History and criticism; Homosexuality in literature.; Homosexuality and literature.; Homosexuality Germany History.; Queer theory.; Homosexuality history
Abstract: "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."--Jacket.
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.