The sodomite in fiction and satire, 1660-1750
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English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Gay men in literature
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Male homosexuality in literature
Satire, English -- History and criticism
Sex in literature
Sodomy in literature
English fiction -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Gay men in literature
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century
Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Male homosexuality in literature
Satire, English -- History and criticism
Sex in literature
Sodomy in literature
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216 pages ; 22 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-206) and index
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Unlike much of the scholarship that has reexamined issues of gender and sexuality in the Restoration and eighteenth century, this book is not concerned with tracing the emergence of a proto-modern "homosexual" identity. In The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, the central question is: Why did so many eighteenth-century writers represent the sodomite at all? What purposes did these representations serve?
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Charting the emergence of the sodomite as a social type, Cameron McFarlane argues that the sodomite symbolized a variety of economic and political conflicts and transgressions; at the same time, the cumulative effect of these representations was to enable homoerotic desire to be articulated as it was being condemned.
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McFarlane begins with an examination of several texts -- Faustina, The Tragedy of Nero, and others -- that portray the sodomite as a destructive force: foreigner, papist, tyrant, and despoiler of British masculinity. He follows with close readings of two satires; Sodom: or the Quintessence of Debauchery, and Love Letters Between a Certain Late Nobleman and the Famous Mr. Wilson. In the first, sodomy is equated with political abuse of power, while the second depicts sodomy as a "false economy of desire". McFarlane also explores the sodomite as a sexual provocateur in the works of Tobias Smollet and John Cleland.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
McFarlane, C. (1997). The sodomite in fiction and satire, 1660-1750 . Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McFarlane, Cameron. 1997. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750. Columbia University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750 Columbia University Press, 1997.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750 Columbia University Press, 1997.
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