Sexual dissidence
Subtitle: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault
By: Jonathan Dollimore.
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA; Clarendon Press, USA
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
Subjects: Sexual deviation; Sexual deviation in literature
Description: Returning to the early modern period, this study questions and develops issues of post-modernity. It shows how literature histories and sub-cultures of sexual and gender dissidence may be relevant to current debates and discusses topics ranging from homophobia to transgression and its containment.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-381) and index.