Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture
ISBN-10
0230513042
ISBN-13
9780230513044
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
282
Language
English
Published
2002-10-23
Publisher
Springer
Author
F. Roden

Description

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity. Roden charts the emergence of the modern homosexual in relation to religious, not exclusively sociological discourses. Positing Catholicism as complementary to classical Greece, he challenges the separatism of sexuality and religion in critical practice. Moving from Newman and Rossetti, to Hopkins, Wilde, and Michael Field amongst others, Same-Sex Desire claims a new literary history, bringing together gay studies and theology in Victorian literature.

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