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