Classic Gay Male Lerature (207 books)

In Rensirg the Emergence of the Gay Novel English and German, Jam P. Wilper exam a key moment the velopment of the morn gay novel by analyzg four novels by German, Brish, and Amerin wrers. Wilper studi how the texts are fluenced by and rpond and react to four schools of thought regardg male homosexualy the late neteenth and early twentieth centuri. The first is legal s crimalizg sex acts between men and the relig doctre that rms them. The send is the ancient Greek erotic philosophy, which a revival of tert took place the late neteenth century. The third is sexual science (or “sexology”), which offered var medil and psychologil explanatns for same-sex sire and was employed varly to fend, as well as to attempt to cure, this "perversn." And fourth, the wake of the sndal ed by his trials and nvictn for "gross cency," Osr Wil beme associated wh a homosexual stereotype based on "unmanly" behavr. Wilper analyz the four novels—Thomas Mann's Death Venice, E. M. Forster's Mrice, Edward Prime-Stevenson's Imre: A Memorandum, and John Henry Mackay's The Htler— relatn to the schools of thought, and foc on the exchange and cross-cultural fluence between lguistic and cultural ntexts on the subject of love and sire between men.