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MacFarlane charts the emergence of sodomy in the stories and novels of Restoration and eighteenth-century England as a definable social act, not as a marker of an emerging proto-modern "homosexual" identity. From Faustina, the Tragedy of Niro to or the Quintessence of Debauchery, he argues that the Sodomite symbolized a variety of economic and political conflicts and transgressions; at the same time it enabled the articulation of homoerotic desire as it was being condemned.
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The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750, Cameron McFarlane
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- The Sodomite in Fiction and Satire, 1660-1750
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Cameron McFarlane
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0231108958
- ISBN13
- 9780231108959
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, History, Literary Studies, LGBTQ+, USA, Great Britain, Literary Criticism, 17th century
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- MacFarlane charts the emergence of sodomy in the stories and novels of Restoration and eighteenth-century England as a definable social act, not as a marker of an emerging proto-modern "homosexual" identity. From Faustina, the Tragedy of Niro to or the Quintessence of Debauchery, he argues that the Sodomite symbolized a variety of economic and political conflicts and transgressions; at the same time it enabled the articulation of homoerotic desire as it was being condemned.