Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics
“At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love’s Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University\ “Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson’s voice—moving with a litigator’s clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that...
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“At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love’s Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University“Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson’s voice—moving with a litigator’s clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love.”—Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University
Introduction11Wilde's Love-Deaths152Pederastic Trappings: Gide and Firbank493Another Other: Woolf and Stein744Friends and Lovers: Yourcenar and Renault1045Barthes's Love-Tricks129Afterword151Notes155Works Cited177Index191
\ From the Publisher"Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voice—moving with a litigator's clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love."—Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University\ \ \
