Title The homosexual revival of Renaissance style, 1850-1930 / Yvonne Ivory

Published Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages) Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents Consummate Criminals: Nineteenth-Century Renaissance Historiography and the Homosexual -- Individualist Inverts: Self-Realization as a Liberatory Sexual Discourse at the Turn of the Century -- Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde's Renaissance Self-Fashioning -- The Erotics of Fame; or, How Thomas Mann Conquered the Renaissance -- Orlando Emergent: Vita Sackville-West's Renaissance Personae Summary Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? What drew John Addington Symonds, Vernon Lee, and Walter Pater to write socio-cultural studies of the era? Or Thomas Mann, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Vita Sackville-West, and Louis Couperus' to name but a few--to set novels and plays in Renaissance Italy? That question is at the heart of this volume, which begins by showing that the Renaissance (as depicted by German and British intellectuals from 1850 onward) was an era whose hallmarks were beauty, self-expression, criminality, and sexual dissidence. As new laws and sciences emerged that banned or pathologized relations between members of the same sex, this imagined Renaissance which married beautiful bodies to criminality and expansive self-fashioning provided models of same-sex love that went beyond the prevailing paradigm of ethereal and pedagogical Greek Love. The first study to address the close ties between the anarchist-individualist and gay rights movements in 1890s Germany, The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style suggests, too, that if we are to begin to map out the genealogy of our own era's consummate type, the impeccably stylish gay man, we might look to the nineteenth-century's peopling of the Renaissance with sexually corrupt 'but aesthetically immaculate' individualists Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index Notes Print version record Subject Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955 fast Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 fast Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 fast Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Homosexuality and literature -- History -- 19th century Homosexuality and literature -- History -- 20th century Homosexuality in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature Homosexuality and literature Homosexuality in literature Homosexualität Motiv Literatur Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230242432 023024243X

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