Yvonne Ivory, "The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850–1930"
2009 | ISBN: 1349305480 | English | PDF | 249 pages | 2.1 MB
2009 | ISBN: 1349305480 | English | PDF | 249 pages | 2.1 MB
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. …