Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World

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Author: Katherine O'Donnell

ISBN-10: 1403920443

ISBN-13: 9781403920447

Category: Homosexuality, Male -> History

This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions. About the Author RICHARD GODBEER Professor of History, University of Miami, Florida, USA DAN HEALEY Senior...

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This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions.

List of IllustrationsixNotes on ContributorsxPrefacexiiiAcknowledgmentsxixIntroduction: Siting Queer Masculinitiesxx1Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland12Faust's Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany173The Historiography of Male-Male Love in Portugal, 1550-1800374'Are Those People Like Us?' - Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland585Almost Nothing: Male-Male Sex in Denmark, 1550-1800776A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary947Can We 'Queer' Early Modern Russia?1068Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship1259Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia14410Colonial Latin America16611'Sodomitical Actings', 'Inward Disposition', and 'The Bonds of Brotherly Affection': Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America19112Homosexuality in Early Modern France21113Between Men in Early Modern England232Index252