03821oam 22005774a 450 991026934960332120231213121334.01-61249-421-81-61249-417-X(CKB)3710000000654821(EBL)4516854(MiAaPQ)EBC4516854(OCoLC)949272962(MdBmJHUP)muse46371(EXLCZ)99371000000065482120160128d2016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierReconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German /James Patrick WilperWest Lafayette, Indiana :Purdue University Press,2016.1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)Comparative cultural studiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-55753-731-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Part 1: Religion and Law; Chapter 1: Sin and Crime; Part 2: Greek Love; Chapter 2: Transcending Greek Love; Chapter 3: The ""manly love of comrades""; Part 3: Science and Sex; Chapter 4: The Highest Being Drawn Down into Decadence; Chapter 5: Health, Masculinity, and the Third Sex; Part 4: Wild about Oscar Wilde?; Chapter 6: A Tough Act to Follow: Homosexuality in Fiction after Oscar Wilde; Chapter 7: Das Bildnis des Oskar Wilde; Afterword.In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or sexology), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler, in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men.Comparative cultural studies.Lesbians in literatureGay men in literatureHomosexuality and literatureGerman fictionEurope, German-speakingHistory and criticismEnglish fictionEnglish-speaking countriesHistory and criticismGay people's writingsHistory and criticismLesbians in literature.Gay men in literature.Homosexuality and literature.German fictionHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Gay people's writingsHistory and criticism.823.009353Wilper James Patrick1981-858070MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910269349603321Reconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German1915792UNINA