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This fascinating and diverse collection of essays concerns the lives and representations of homosexuals in the long eighteenth century. The collection addresses and seeks to move beyond the current critical division between essentialists and social constructionists, a division that bedevils the history of sexuality and fissures Queer Theory. Drawing on a wide range of sources as well as theoretical approaches, the essays explore canonical and non-canonical literature, scurrilous pamphlets and court cases, music, religion and politics, consumer culture and sexual subcultures. Eighteenth-century life is depicted here in all its rich variety, from the scandals surrounding Queen Anne to the struggles of laboring-class poets, and from the famous - Defoe, Handel, Boswell, Burney, and the Duchess of Devonshire - to the obscure male frequenters of Mother Clap's Molly House or the anonymous female participants in the extraordinary story of The She-Wedding.

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• Full title: Queer People
• Subtitle: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800
• Author: Chris Mounsey, Caroline Gonda
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 305
• EAN: 9781611482713
• ISBN: 1611482712
• ID: 05092036
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Weight: 622 g
• Dimensions: 167 × 240 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2007

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