Download or read book Eccentricity and Sameness written by Charlotte Ross and published by Italian Modernities. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling widespread views that female same-sex desire is virtually absent from Italian literature and cultural production, this groundbreaking study demonstrates that narratives of lesbianism between 1860 and 1939 are significantly more numerous than has been asserted, opening up important new perspectives on discourses of sexuality in Italy.
Download or read book Homosexuality in Italian Literature Society and Culture 1789 1919 written by Elisa Bianco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homosexuality, bisexuality, transvestitism, and trans-genders represented new ideas, customs, and mentalities which shattered nineteenth-century Italy. At this time, Italy was a state in the making, with a growing population, a fading aristocracy, and new urban classes entering the scene. While still an extremely Catholic country, atheism and secularization slowly undermined the old, traditional morality, with literature and poetry endorsing innovative fashions coming from abroad. Laxity mixed with perversion, while new forms of sexuality mirrored the immense changes taking place in a society that, since time immemorial, was dominated by the Church and by a rigid class system. This was a revolution, parallel to the political movements that brought about the Unification of Italy in 1861, and was tormented, intense, and occasionally tragic. This collection of essays offers a rather comprehensive overview of this phenomenon. Personalities and places, ideas and novels, poetry and tragedy, law and customs, are the subject of ten essays, written by leading international experts in Italian history, the history of sexuality, literature and poetry. The Italian nineteenth century is a time of a number of rapid changes, visible and invisible revolutions, often given less attention than the unification process. This book makes a substantial contribution to Italian studies and modern European history.
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Download or read book From Sodomy Laws to Same Sex Marriage written by Sean Brady and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by recent adoptions of same-sex marriage, From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage provides international perspectives on the legal and social history of same-sex relationships from the early 19th century to the present. Its emphasis is on areas where the impetus for change has been most noticeable: Europe, the Americas, and Australasia. From Sodom and Gomorrah to Britain's sodomy laws and continental Europe's abhorrence of sexual acts 'against nature', the history of same-sex love traditionally ranged from fire and brimstone maledictions to secrecy and scandal. Until recently, legal positions across the western world reflected the legacies of the British and French empires, as well as Christianity, particularly Catholicism. In recent years, however, there has been a revolution in attitudes towards same-sex relationships. This poses hitherto unanswered questions: what historical complexities lie behind the revolutionary shift from punitive attitudes to legal endorsement of same-sex relationships? Given the cultural variety of historical attitudes to same-sex relationships, why has their legal acceptance been so international? The essays in this volume provide answers to these questions, offering the first international overview of the topic. While other studies have attempted to explain the change in legal and social treatment of same-sex relationships in a national context, or within a shorter time frame, this is the first volume to examine the topic from the French Revolution to the present day, bringing together a diverse array of perspectives over a range of countries. It is an important volume for students and scholars of queer history, the history of sexuality, law and sociology.
Download or read book Eccentricity written by James Kendall and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Fisherman s Creek written by Tina Bishop and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura and Harry Bell are unaware of its tragic history when they move into an elegant mansion on Fisherman's Creek. They are a handsome but oddly matched couple: Laura, a willowy, serene blonde with the poise of a well-born Englishwoman; her husband is of a rougher cut, with a volatile temper and menacing aura. They met on a singles tour in Italy when his good looks and impressive physique attracted her at once. Laura hopes the move will revive their marriage. All goes well until the unexpected visit of Jason Hunter, Harry's college roommate. Then the Bells' life is changed forever. "A fun and fast read with lots of twists. This subtle and unique suspense story deceives the reader until the very end."-Ann Caron, author of Strong Mothers, Strong Sons. "Tina Bishop's first novel is filled with what seems like innocent maneuvering, but nothing should be taken for granted. Her use of setting and dialogue is fast-paced as she takes you on what may be the most circuitous mystery you will ever read."-Rev. Anita E. Keire, author of The Mustard Seed Series.
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Download or read book Distance Theatre and the Public Voice 1750 1850 written by M. Nuss and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As theatres expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the distance between actor and audience became a telling metaphor for the distance emerging between writers and readers. Nuss explores the ways in which theatre helped authors imagine connecting with a new mass audience.
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Download or read book Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling written by Matthew Ward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on the serious side and melancholic moods of Romantic poets. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling instead embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer an original and compelling new reading of British Romanticism. It reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics. Matthew Ward shows that laughter was one of the primary means by which Romantics embraced and expanded upon, but also frequently aped and lampooned, sympathetic feeling. The laughter of feeling is both the expression of sympathy and an articulation of its implications, prejudices, and constraints. For Romantic poets like Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, the sound of laughter carries the hope that greater knowledge of others derives from feeling for and with them through poetry, and this might lead to a better understanding of oneself. Yet laughter also makes these poets acutely aware that our emotional lives are utterly unfamiliar and perhaps ultimately unknowable. Their prosody of laughter enlivens and exposes; it embodies their sense of?and ambitions for?poetry, and yet calls those matters into the most comical and gravest doubt. Laughter helps define what it is to be human. This book shows that it also defines what it is to be a 'Romantic' poet.
Download or read book A Biochemic Basis for the Study of Problems of Taxonomy Heredity Evolution Etc written by Edward Tyson Reichert and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
