Homosexual revival of renaissance style, 1850–1930, the
Auteur :
Ivory, Y.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9781349305483
Date de publication :
7 mai 2009
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.