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Description:This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the history of sexuality and fissures Queer Theory. Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as theoretical approaches, the essays explore canonical and non-canonical literature, scurrilous pamphlets and court cases, music, religion and politics, consumer culture and sexual subcultures. Eighteenth-century life is here in all its rich variety, from the scandals surrounding Queen Anne to the struggles of laboring-class poets, and from the famous: Defoe, Handel, Boswell, Burney, and the Duchess of Devonshire, to the obscure male frequenters of Mother Clap's Molly House or the anonymous female participants in the extraordinary story of The She-Wedding.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800. To get started finding Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the history of sexuality and fissures Queer Theory. Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as theoretical approaches, the essays explore canonical and non-canonical literature, scurrilous pamphlets and court cases, music, religion and politics, consumer culture and sexual subcultures. Eighteenth-century life is here in all its rich variety, from the scandals surrounding Queen Anne to the struggles of laboring-class poets, and from the famous: Defoe, Handel, Boswell, Burney, and the Duchess of Devonshire, to the obscure male frequenters of Mother Clap's Molly House or the anonymous female participants in the extraordinary story of The She-Wedding.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800. To get started finding Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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