CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Classical Pastoral and Elegy -- 2 The Aeneid and the Persistence of Elegy -- 3 The Space of the Tomb -- 4 Pastoral and the Shrinking of Homoerotic Space -- 5 Idylls and Kings -- Postscript -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Summary
Stephen Guy-Bray argues that early modern authors used renditions of Theocritan and Virgilian pastoral, as well as epic poetry, for the exploration and the allusive presentation of homoerotic and homosocial themes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-259) and index