Warm Brothers : : Queer Theory and the Age of Goethe / / Robert Tobin.

In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in other men; Johann Joachim Winckelmann could place admiration of male beauty at the center of his art criticism; and admirers and detractors alike of Fred...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:New Cultural Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Panic in Weimar
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Queering the Eighteenth Century
  • 2. Warm Signifiers: Eighteenth-Century Codes of Male-Male Desire
  • 3. Jean Paul's Oriental Homosexualities
  • 4. Literary Cures in Wieland and Moritz
  • 5. Pederasty and Pharmaka in Goethe's Works
  • 6. Performing Gender in Wilhelm Meister: Goethe on Italian Transvestites
  • 7. Male Members: Ganymede, Prometheus, Faust
  • 8. Thomas Mann's Queer Schiller
  • 9. Lichtenberg's Queer Fragments: Sexuality and the Aphorism
  • Conclusion. Made in Germany: Modern Sexuality
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index