The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750
Charting the emergence of the sodomite as a social type, this text argues that the sodomite symbolized a variety of economic and political conflicts and transgressions. The central question the text considers is: Why did so many 18th century writers represent the sodomite at all?
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0231108958
ISBN13:9780231108959
Release Date:May 1997
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Worthwhile addition to Eighteeenth-Century Studies
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
McFarlane's book is quite good on the topic it covers. It avoids essentializing or questing after gay identity in a politically-motivated way (although this too has led to worthwhile criticism), and remains skeptical and interested in the ways that the figure of the sodomite is constructed as a political and moral trope that captures many other "transgressions" beyond that it claims to name. Particularly relevant and enlightening are his readings of Smollet and Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
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