Men in Love Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century |
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Author:
| Haggerty, George |
Series title: | Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies |
ISBN: | 978-0-231-11043-3 |
Publication Date: | May 1999 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $32.00 |
Book Description:
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Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century archetypes of same-sex relations in which sensibility and sexuality emerge as interdependent.
Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century archetypes of same-sex relations in which sensibility and sexuality emerge as interdependent.