LEADER 03821oam 22005774a 450 001 9910269349603321 005 20231213121334.0 010 $a1-61249-421-8 010 $a1-61249-417-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000654821 035 $a(EBL)4516854 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4516854 035 $a(OCoLC)949272962 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46371 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000654821 100 $a20160128d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German /$fJames Patrick Wilper 210 1$aWest Lafayette, Indiana :$cPurdue University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 201 pages) 225 1 $aComparative cultural studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-55753-731-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart 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. 330 $aIn Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or sexology), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." And fourth, in the wake of the scandal caused by his trials and conviction for "gross indecency," Oscar Wilde became associated with a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavior. Wilper analyzes the four novels: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, E.M. Forster's Maurice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Hustler, in relation to these schools of thought, and focuses on the exchange and cross-cultural influence between linguistic and cultural contexts on the subject of love and desire between men. 410 0$aComparative cultural studies. 606 $aLesbians in literature 606 $aGay men in literature 606 $aHomosexuality and literature 606 $aGerman fiction$zEurope, German-speaking$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish fiction$zEnglish-speaking countries$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGay people's writings$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLesbians in literature. 615 0$aGay men in literature. 615 0$aHomosexuality and literature. 615 0$aGerman fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGay people's writings$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.009353 700 $aWilper$b James Patrick$f1981-$0858070 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910269349603321 996 $aReconsidering the emergence of the gay novel in English and German$91915792 997 $aUNINA