Queer People - Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800

This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the history of sexuality and fissures Queer Theory.

About the author

Chris Mounsey is a senior lecturer in English at the University of Winchester. Caroline Gonda is a fellow and director of studies in English at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Summary

This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the history of sexuality and fissures Queer Theory.

Product details

• Assisted by: Caroline Gonda (Editor), Chris Mounsey (Editor)
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2007
• EAN: 9781611482713
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-271-3
• No. of pages: 305
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität / LGBTQ, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Gender Studies, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Gay Studies