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Author Tobin, Robert Deam

Title Warm brothers : queer theory and the age of Goethe / Robert Tobin
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : illustrations
Series New cultural studies
New cultural studies.
Contents Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface: Panic in Weimar -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Queering the Eighteenth Century -- 2. Warm Signifiers: Eighteenth-Century Codes of Male-Male Desire -- 3. Jean Paul's Oriental Homosexualities -- 4. Literary Cures in Wieland and Moritz -- 5. Pederasty and Pharmaka in Goethe's Works -- 6. Performing Gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian Transvestites -- 7. Male Members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust -- 8. Thomas Mann's Queer Schiller -- 9. Lichtenberg's Queer Fragments: Sexuality and the Aphorism -- Conclusion. Made in Germany: Modern Sexuality -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary "Well argued, clearly written, with interesting emphases and ambitious breadth, this excellent book maintains a uniformly high level of scholarship."--Choice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-226) and index
Notes In English
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Subject German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality and literature.
Homosexuality -- Germany -- History
Queer theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German literature
Homosexuality
Homosexuality and literature
Homosexuality in literature
Queer theory
Germany
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0812203607
9780812203608