Homoerotic space
Subtitle: the poetics of loss in Renaissance literature
By: Stephen Guy-Bray.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Theocritus -- Appreciation -- England; Virgil -- Appreciation -- England; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism; Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century; Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; English literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism; Pastoral poetry, Classical -- Appreciation -- England; Classicism -- England -- History -- 16th century; Classicism -- England -- History -- 17th century; English literature -- Classical influences; Poetics -- History -- 16th century; Poetics -- History -- 17th century; Homosexuality, Male in literature; Loss (Psychology) in literature
Description: "Sexual politics in the Renaissance dictated a strong opposition to any kind of homoerotic attachments, or discussion thereof, forcing Renaissance poets and playwrights to find other means of representing these connections. In this compelling and intriguing work, Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic and homosocial themes." "Drawing on poetry and plays by such authors as Castiglione, the Earl of Surrey, Milton, Spenser, Barnfield, William Browne, Shakespeare, and Beaumont and Fletcher, Guy-Bray investigates how some authors used these classical models to represent homoeroticism, while others found the inherent homoeroticism of these poems to be problematic. Discussing both content and form of Renaissance and Classical literature, Guy-Bray's work engages in an important and frequently heated debate about the history of homoeroticism as well as questions of literary history and the interpretation of texts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 3; title: 1; title: Classical Pastoral and Elegy 24; title: 2; title: The Aeneid and the Persistence of Elegy 57; title: 3; title: The Space of the Tomb 85; title: 4; title: Pastoral and the Shrinking of Homoerotic Space 133; title: 5; title: Idylls and Kings 176; title: Postscript 216; title: NOTES 225; title: WORKS CITED 247; title: INDEX 261.