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oapen-20.500.12657-300772021-11-04T14:12:16Z Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German Wilper, James P. Literature Effeminacy Greek love Homosexuality Oscar Wilde Sexology In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or “sexology”), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion." 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-13 03:00:30 2020-04-01T12:44:29Z 2020-04-01T12:44:29Z 2016-02-01 book 650023 OCN: 949272962 9781557537508 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30077 eng application/pdf n/a 650023.pdf Purdue University Press 103462 3600efb5-b3a3-419f-9e4f-7a6094096815 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781557537508 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) West Lafayette 103462 KU Round 2 605455 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In Reconsidering the Emergence of the Gay Novel in English and German, James P. Wilper examines a key moment in the development of the modern gay novel by analyzing four novels by German, British, and American writers. Wilper studies how the texts are influenced by and respond and react to four schools of thought regarding male homosexuality in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first is legal codes criminalizing sex acts between men and the religious doctrine that informs them. The second is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, in which a revival of interest took place in the late nineteenth century. The third is sexual science (or “sexology”), which offered various medical and psychological explanations for same-sex desire and was employed variously to defend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversion."
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