Another Kind of Love

Description:

In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earlier formulations like "sexual inversion" and "sodomy"? What part does literature play in the development of such categories, or in a culture's resistance to them? And what are the implications for the creation and maintenance of the presumed "natural" male heterosexual subject? How has male heterosexual subjectivity been established as a bulwark against the attractions of a homosexual desire that is repeatedly incited by the very culture that condemns it? Craft examines the discourses of nineteenth-century psychiatry and sexology; some of Freud's central writings; and Tennyson's In Memoriam, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Stoker's Dracula, and Lawrence's Women In Love.

subjects: Desire in literature,  English literature,  Gay men in literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Homosexuality and literature,  Love in literature,  Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930.,  English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.,  Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History.,  Gay men in literature.,  Desire in literature.,  Love in literature.,  Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930,  Homosexuality in literature,  English literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  LGBTQ literary criticism,  Littérature anglaise,  Histoire et critique,  Homosexualité et littérature,  Histoire,  Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature,  Désir dans la littérature,  Amour dans la littérature,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Women in love (Lawrence, D.H.),  LGBTQ history,  LGBTQ queer theory,  LGBTQ anthropology

People: D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Places: Great Britain

Times: 19th century