Men in love : masculinity and sexuality in the eighteenth century
Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century archetypes of same-sex relations in which sensibility and sexuality emerge as interdependent.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780231110426, 9780231110433, 0231110421, 023111043X
40142967
Introduction: Masculinity and Sexuality Part 1: Masculinities 1. Heroic Friendships 2. Gay Fops/Straight Fops 3. Sensibility and Its Symptoms Part 2: Sexualities 4. Gray's Tears 5. Beckford's Pederasty 6. Walpole's Secrets