Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture

Ivory, Y.

Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2009-05-07

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349305483

DOI: 10.1057/9780230242432

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240