The first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, this book focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by eight authors: Oscar Wilde, Andre Gide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Marguerite Yourcenar, Mary Renault, and Roland Barthes. In doing so, the author both positions these authors as experimental and influential erotic theorists and protests the critical undervaluation of love (as opposed to desire) in the construction of sexuality as we know it.
- ISBN10 0804723451
- ISBN13 9780804723459
- Publish Date 1 August 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 July 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Stanford University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English