Closeted Writing and Lesbian and Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-Century

by David M. Robinson

Book Overview

Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention more generally), this study explores the representation of female and male homosexuality in late sixteenth- through mid-eighteenth-century British and French literature. The author also uncovers and analyzes long-term continuities in the representation of same-sex love, sex, and desire between the classical, early modern, eighteenth-century, and even modern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138254045
• ISBN13: 9781138254046
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"