Homosexuality in Renaissance England

Informationen zum Autor Alan Bray is an independent scholar living in London. A graduate of the University of Wales, he is a mbember of the Editorial Collective of History Workshop Journal. Klappentext Alan Bray's Homosexuality in Renaissance England is a milestone work, one of those rare books that can be said to have virtually milestone work, one of those rare books that can be said to have virtually inaugurated a field of study--and one which remains a standard, comprehensive introduction to the subject. Since it was first published in England in 1982, however, it has been difficult to find in America.Examining the image of the sodomite in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century literature and polemic, Bray demonstrates how widely that image differed from the everyday occurrences of male homosexual behavior in ordinary households and schools. Homosexuality in Renaissance England explores how men who engaged in sodomy reconciled this behavior with their society's violent loathing for the sodomite, and shows how a social more that had remained stable for centuries changed dramatically toward the end of the seventeenth century.Widely considered the best study of its kind Homosexuality in Renaissance England clearly shows why the modern image of "the homosexual" cannot be applied to the early modern period, when homosexual behavior was viewed in terms of the sexual act and not an individual's broader identity.Bray's classic work goes on to show how the early eighteenth century saw the earliest emergence of a "homosexual identity." Finally available to a broad general audience in America, Homosexuality in Renaissance England is a must-read for anyone interested in sexuality during the early modern period. Zusammenfassung Bray explores how men who engaged in sodomy reconciled this behavior with their society's violent loathing for the sodomite! and shows how a social more that had remained stable for centuries changed dramatically toward the end of the seventeenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Word and Symbol The Social Setting Society and the Individual Molly Afterword Notes Bibliography Index...

Product details

• Authors: Alan Bray, Bray Alan
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1996
• EAN: 9780231102896
• ISBN: 978-0-231-10289-6
• No. of pages: 165
• Series: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies; Between Men-Between Women: Les; Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Gay Studies (Gay Men), SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics