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...
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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. 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction ; Part I: Reviving Renaissance Individualism; 1 Consummate Criminals: Nineteenth-Century Renaissance Historiography and the Homosexual; 2 Individualist Inverts: Self-Realization as a Liberatory Sexual Discourse at the Turn of the Century; Part II: Styling Queer Personalities; 3 Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde's Renaissance Self-Fashioning; 4 The Erotics of Fame; or, How Thomas Mann Conquered the Renaissance; 5 Orlando Emergent: Vita Sackville-West's Renaissance Personae; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G
