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Alice A. . Ed(S): Kuzniar - Outing Goethe and His Age - 9780804726146 - V9780804726146
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Outing Goethe and His Age

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Description for Outing Goethe and His Age Hardback. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"--to call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period--as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters. Editor(s): Kuzniar, Alice A. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2ACG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 552.

When Goethe christened the 1700's "the Century of Winckelmann" and Kant dubbed it "the Century of Frederick the Great," they invoked two notorious figures in gay history. This collection of twelve essays reclaims "the Age of Goethe"—To call upon a literary designation of roughly the same period - as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's letters.

This volume employs historical, biographical, and textual evidence to paint a cohesive picture of the incontrovertibly sexual nature of male-male and female-female relationships in late-eighteenth- and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804726146
SKU
V9780804726146
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