... specifically, homoerotic desire is seen to be the essence of what is repressed for the sake of establishing bourgeois culture, which is “always already” heteronormative. Homosexuals who suffer from this repression gain a kind of revenge by demonizing heteronormative relations, as does Horace Walpole...

... for Sodomy; Nature and the Laws of God require it. —Daniel Defoe, Conjugal Lewdness (1727) The new gay reading of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Rob- inson Crusoe (London, 1719) treats Daniel Defoe’s famous novel as a case history of homosexual repression. According to Hans Turley...

... on the Eumolpus narrative. In both, a woman appropriates for herself the role of catamite, assuming by witty and perverse inclination the place of a subservient boy and thus making a hash of the binarisms 32 Eighteenth-Century Life presumed to operate in both heterosexual and homosexual relations. Tak...

... the abandonment of homosexual attachments or, perhaps more trenchantly, preempting the possibility of homosexual attachment, a foreclosure of possibility which produces a domain of homosexuality understood as unlivable passion and ungrievable loss” (16). See also Haggerty, Men in Love , 113 – 35. 79...

... and exposed them to disgrace. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Béthune homosexuality Jean Benjamin de La Borde Voltaire sodomy Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725727 Copyright 2019 by Jeffrey Merrick 4 1 Father, Lackey, Son...

..., there are no entries in the index for homosexuality, or sodomy, or buggery. Sodomy is men- tioned in the chapter on popular erotic or bawdy literature when Lyons dis- cusses criminal trial collections reprinted in the colonies, but otherwise, homo- sexual behavior seems to be nonexistent, as far as Lyons...

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... of homosexuality in Hogarth's art prompted me to recall the homosexual innuendos not only in The Beggar's Opera picture, where a member of the audience holds the tip of his cane close to his lips. Elsewhere, a chairman's backside is turned suggestively toward the Rake as he quits his chair in the arrest scene...

... Punish d with the other versions of the Dutch- man s story while he was researching the life of John Balchen, commander of the James and Mary.12 No critics other than Alex Ritsema have published on this version, though one doctoral thesis has examined it in relation to language about homosexuality...

... assumed that Rufus was a homosexual; Frank Barlow has more recently con- cluded, “On the whole the evidence points to the king’s bisexuality” (William Rufus [Berke- ley: Univ. of California, 1983], p. 109.) John Boswell has argued, however, that the charges...

... People: Negotia- tions and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700- 1800 (2007); edited two other vol- umes, one of which is Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth Century (2014); and authored one book, Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twenty- First Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church (2014...

..., demonstrate what Jack terms a Romantic obsession with heterodox, forbidden subjects death, perversion, and homosexuality. In addition to his suggestive claims about the nature of Beckford s author- ship, Châtel provides other acute insights, as when he refers to how in Vathek Beckford s pervasive tonal...

... not be sold, although they were (with a madam informing the police inspector and offering him first access in at least one case), clergymen were not supposed to frequent brothels, although they did (at the real risk of incarceration), and cross-dressing, homosexual acts, and sex with children under...

... fleeing McCarthyism in the US. This “distinctly B picture” is considered not only in terms of its homo- sexual subtext (the link between “mate” and matelot will be brilliantly made in the subsequent chapter on Corbière), but also in terms of a “taboo within a taboo: homosexual rape within...

... Special Issue”; and two articles in Eighteenth-Century Life—Joseph Levine’s “The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles” and George Rousseau’s “The Pursuit of Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century”—have won the ASECS Clifford Prize. A fine...

... roman des Lumières (Paris: Honoré Champion, 1998). Pp. 480. ISBN 2-85203- 685-1 Hobson, Christopher Z. Blake and Homosexuality (N.Y.: Palgrave, 2000). Pp. xxii + 249. $49.95. ISBN 0-312-23451-1 Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed...

... homosexuality, which was a hanging offense, one may believe it unlikely that “slavery was the greatest repressed force in Beck- ford’s life” (137). Gikandi’s statement that “patronage of art and culture had shifted from the courts and aristocracy to the middle classes, the only people with amounts...

... NOTES 1. Tendencies (Durham: Duke Univ., 1993), p. 48. 2. The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (N.Y.: Columbia Univ., 1993), p. 30. 3. Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel (Durham: Duke...

... because they confirm Austen’s knowledge of sexuality, includ- ing “illicit unions,” and, he adds, the “young Austen was equally knowing on the subject of homosexual desire” (lxi). Sabor thus uncovers possible motives for the nineteenth-century’s refashioning of the author: “The reluctance...

... to “make a case.” I greatly admire a scholar who admits the inadequacy of the pertinent evidence and refuses to make a call. As an example, I offer Gary C. Thomas on the problem of whether Handel was homosexual.62 The only defensible answer is “We cannot be sure.” He certainly may have been...