Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England
Subtitle: Literary Representations in Historical Context
Series: Research on Homosexuality
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: November 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781560242956
Subjects: Gay & Lesbian studies; Gender studies; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Homosexuality and literature; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Sexuality In Literature; English Renaissance Literature (1500-1700); Social Science; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction; England; Gay Studies; Early modern, 1500-1700; 16th century; 17th century; English literature; History; History and criticism
First sentence: Over the past two decades, gay studies has emerged as a distinct, though somewhat amorphous and necessarily interdisciplinary, field of intellectual inquiry, characterized by a particular subject matter - the study of gay male and lesbian experience, broadly defined - and by a sympathetic and supportive attitude toward that subject matter.