The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgements......Page 9 Introduction......Page 12 Part I: Reviving Renaissance Individualism......Page 22 1 Consummate Criminals: Nineteenth-Century Renaissance Historiography and the Homosexual......Page 24 2 Individualist Inverts: Self-Realization as a Liberatory Sexual Discourse at the Turn of the Century......Page 60 Part II: Styling Queer Personalities......Page 92 3 Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde's Renaissance Self-Fashioning......Page 94 4 The Erotics of Fame; or, How Thomas Mann Conquered the Renaissance......Page 120 5 Orlando Emergent: Vita Sackville-West's Renaissance Personae......Page 148 Conclusion......Page 164 Notes......Page 168 Bibliography......Page 224 B......Page 240 D......Page 241 G......Page 242 I......Page 243 M......Page 244 P......Page 246 R......Page 247 S......Page 248 T......Page 249 W......Page 250 X......Page 251 Cover 1 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 9 Introduction 12 Part I: Reviving Renaissance Individualism 22 1 Consummate Criminals: Nineteenth-Century Renaissance Historiography and the Homosexual 24 2 Individualist Inverts: Self-Realization as a Liberatory Sexual Discourse at the Turn of the Century 60 Part II: Styling Queer Personalities 92 3 Poison, Passion, and Personality: Oscar Wilde's Renaissance Self-Fashioning 94 4 The Erotics of Fame; or, How Thomas Mann Conquered the Renaissance 120 5 Orlando Emergent: Vita Sackville-West's Renaissance Personae 148 Conclusion 164 Notes 168 Bibliography 224 Index 240 A 240 B 240 C 241 D 241 E 242 F 242 G 242 H 243 I 243 J 244 K 244 L 244 M 244 N 246 O 246 P 246 Q 247 R 247 S 248 T 249 U 250 V 250 W 250 X 251