Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Sexual politics in the Renaissance dictated a strong opposition to any kind of homoerotic attachments, or discussion thereof, forcing Renaissance poets and playwrights to find other means of representing these connections. In this compelling and intriguing work, Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802036775
• ISBN13: 9780802036773
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher