Swords in myrtle dress'd
Swords in myrtle dress'd: towards a rhetoric of Sodom: gay readings of homosexual politics and poetics in the eighteenth century Jon Thomas Rowland
Publisher: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; c1998.
ISBN: 0838637604
DDC: 820.9353
LCC: PR448
Edition: (alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-240) and index.
1. Introductory: Three Homophobic Tracts: Plain Reason, Strict
Observations, and Hell upon Earth -- 2. Formal Strain: Problems of
Homosexual Expression in William Arnall's Letter to Dr. Codex,
Philalethes' The Parson and His Clerk, and Thomas Gilbert's A View of
the Town -- 3. The Wadhamites: Homosocial versus Homosexual in
College-Wit Sharpen'd and A Faithful Narrative -- 4. Sporus before
Us: Some Versions of Hervey -- 5. Mr. Bradbury's Case Truly Stated: A
Polyvalent Text -- 6. Narcissism and Homoeroticism in Mark Akenside's
The Pleasures of Imagination -- 7. Invoking Present Absence: Women in
Akenside's Odes -- 8. Essays on Men and Women: Homophobia and
Misogyny in Wilkes' Satire of Pope's Essay on Man -- 9. Formal
Strain: Homophobia in Churchill's The Times -- 10. The Homosexual
Stage: The Rosciad -- 11. George III as "Schoolboy King" -- 12.
Towards a Rhetoric of Sodom.
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