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Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800

Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Katherine O’Donnell

    1. Research & Resource Centre (WERRC), University College Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Michael O’Rourke

    1. Fellow in the School of English, University College Dublin, Ireland

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland

    • Chris Mounsey
    Pages 1-16

  3. Faust’s Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany

    • Robert D. Tobin
    Pages 17-36

  4. The Historiography of Male-Male Love in Portugal, 1550–1800

    • David Higgs
    Pages 37-57

  5. ‘Are Those People Like Us’ — Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland

    • Theo van der Meer
    Pages 58-76

  6. Almost Nothing: Male-Male Sex in Denmark, 1550–1800

    • Wilhelm von Rosen
    Pages 77-93

  7. A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary

    • Helmut Puff
    Pages 94-105

  8. Can We ‘Queer’ Early Modern Russia?

    • Dan Healey
    Pages 106-124

  9. Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship

    • Gary P. Leupp
    Pages 125-143

  10. Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia

    • Walter Penrose
    Pages 144-165

  11. Colonial Latin America

    • Martin Austin Nesvig
    Pages 166-190

  12. ‘Sodomitical Actings’, ‘Inward Disposition’, and ‘The Bonds of Brotherly Affection’: Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America

    • Richard Godbeer
    Pages 191-210

  13. Homosexuality in Early Modern France

    • Michael Sibalis
    Pages 211-231

  14. Between Men in Early Modern England

    • Goran V. Stanivukovic
    Pages 232-251

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 252-257
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About this book

This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research & Resource Centre (WERRC), University College Dublin, Ireland

    Katherine O’Donnell

  • Fellow in the School of English, University College Dublin, Ireland

    Michael O’Rourke

About the editors

RICHARD GODBEER Professor of History, University of Miami, Florida, USA DAN HEALEY Senior Lecturer in Russian History, University of Wales, Swansea, UK DAVID HIGGS Professor of History, University College, University of Toronto, CANADA GARY LEUPP Professor of History, Tufts University, USA CHRIS MOUNSEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University College Winchester, UK MARTIN NESVIG Researcher KATHERINE O'DONNELL Lecturer, Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin, IRELAND MICHAEL O'ROURKE Researcher WALTER PENROSE Adjunct Lecturer of History, Baruch College, Lecturer in Classics, Hunter College, USA HELMUT PUFF Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA GEORGE ROUSSEAU Lecturer, Faculty of Modern History, Oxford University MICHAEL SIBALIS Associate Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA

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