Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800
Subtitle: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World
By: edited by Katherine O'Donnell and Michael O'Rourke ; with a preface by George Rousseau.
Contributors: O'Donnell, Katherine, 1966-; O'Rourke, Michael, 1976-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Homosexuality, Male -- History; Homosexuality, Male -- Historiography
Description: "This book offers the most up to date scholarship on queer/gay male historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. Featuring the work of established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and profiling the work of younger, emerging scholars, this book takes the study of male same-sex relationships in the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods in exciting and radical new directions. The essays provide a survey of current scholarship and trends followed by suggestions for future research and fruitful avenues for further exploration. In sum, they provide a snapshot of the most recent research, while always relating the historiography of queer masculinities to the general histories of the regions covered."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Searching in the dark: towards a historiography of queer early modern and enlightenment (anglo) Ireland / Chris Mounsey; title: Faust's transgressions: male-male desire in early modern Germany / Robert D. Tobin; title: The historiography of male-male love in Portugal, 1550-1800 / David Higgs; title: 'Are those people like us?' early modern homosexuality in Holland / Theo van der Meer; title: Almost nothing: male-male sex in Denmark, 1550-1800 / Wilhelm von Rosen; title: A state of sin: Switzerland and the early modern imaginary / Helmut Puff; title: Can we 'queer' early modern Russia? / Dan Healey; title: Male homosexuality in early modern Japan: the state of the scholarship / Gary P. Leupp; title: Colliding cultures: masculinity and homoeroticism in Mughal and early colonial south Asia / Walter Penrose; title: Colonial Latin America / Martin Austin Nesvig; title: 'Sodomitical actings', 'inward disposition', and 'the bonds of brotherly affection': sexual and emotional intimacy between men in colonial and revolutionary America / Richard Godbeer; title: Homosexuality in early modern France / Michael Sibalis; title: Between men in early modern England / Goran V. Stanivukovic