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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457227003321

Titolo

Queer people [[electronic resource] ] : negotiations and expressions of homosexuality, 1700-1800 / / edited by Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg, : Bucknell University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8387-5924-6

9780837559240

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MounseyChris <1959->

GondaCaroline

Disciplina

820.9/9352664

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Homosexuality and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Gays in literature

Homosexuality - History - 18th century

Gays - Social life and customs - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Queer people : an introduction / Caroline Gonda and Chris Mounsey -- Homosexual context and identity : reflections on the reception of Handel as Orpheus / Ellen T. Harris -- Queerness, class, and sexuality / Sally O'Driscoll -- Sex and shopping with Frances Burney / Conrad Brunström -- People, place and performance : theoretically revisiting Mother Clap's molly house / Tanya Cassidy -- How (not) to queer Boswell / Thomas A. King -- Cruising Crusoe : diving into the wreck of sexuality / Joseph Campana -- London's homosexuals in the eighteenth century : rhetoric versus practice / Netta Goldsmith -- Dark deeds at night / Ruth Herman -- Queer labor : genius and class in eighteenth-century pastoral / Bridget Keegan -- Love between men in Jennens' and Handel's Saul / Ruth Smith -- Conversion panic, circumcision and sexual anxiety : Penelope Aubin's queer writing / Chris Mounsey -- Queer doings in Oxford : the Christian's new warning piece (1753) / Caroline Gonda -- Having it both ways? : the



eighteenth-century menage-à-trois / Chris Roulston.