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The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Homosexual Writing, Art and Fantasy

By Robert Aldrich

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
041503227X, 9780203160053, 9780415093125, 0415093120
LCC
PN721 .A43 1993
Open Library ID
OL1735809M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6002475 bytes)
Edition
1ST
Pages
288\288
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.

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