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George E. Haggerty
This works offers a new perspective on Gothic fiction and reassesses its place in literary history. After defining his concept of affective form and summarizing the problematic assumptions behind recent…
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Over the course of his life, which spanned the eighteenth century from 1717 to 1797, Horace Walpole wrote thousands of letters to his closest friends and acquaintances. In this study…
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…
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George E. Haggerty (University of California, Riverside)
Queer Friendship shows how love between men has a rich and varied history in English literature. Only rarely specifically sexual, these same-sex friendships are memorable because they give shape to…
Includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom. This volume is divided into…
A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies Edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies is the…
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Philip Brett
Focuses on Benjamin Britten, one of the great British composers. Addressing urgent questions of how an artist’s sexual, cultural, and personal identity feeds into specific musical texts, this title examines…
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in demonstrate that the topic of female-authored masculinities…
Female novelists have always invested as much narrative energy in constructing their male characters as in envisioning their female. The collected articles in Women Constructing Men demonstrate that the topic…
