Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century

by George E. Haggerty

Book Overview

Love in all its cultural and personal complexity is the focus of this book. While scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century homoerotic culture have tended to focus on sexual behavior and the much-maligned figure of the sodomite, George E. Haggerty argues that the concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the time.

Haggerty considers male "identities" of many kinds:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023111043X
• ISBN13: 9780231110433
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"