Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.
| ISBN: | 9781349305483 |
| Publication date: | 7th May 2009 |
| Author: | Y Ivory |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Gender studies, gender groups Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: general Literature: history and criticism |