Another Kind of Love

By Christopher Craft

Subjects: Love in literature, Désir dans la littérature, European, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Homosexuality and literature, Homosexuality in literature, English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism., Amour dans la littérature, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, LGBTQ literary criticism, Homosexualité et littérature, LGBTQ sociology, Gay men in literature., Lawrence, d. h. (david herbert), 1885-1930, Littérature anglaise, Love in literature., Histoire, Gay men in literature, Desire in literature, Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, Women in love (Lawrence, D.H.), Homosexuality and literature -- Great Britain -- History., Desire in literature., LGBTQ queer theory, History and criticism, Histoire et critique, English literature, Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930., History, LGBTQ history

Description: In a study that will be of interest to all those concerned with the politics of gender, the history of sexuality, and the erotics of reading, Christopher Craft investigates questions fundamental to any history of present sexualities. How does the modern binary homosexual/heterosexual relate to earlier formulations like "sexual inversion" and "sodomy"? What part does literature play in the development of such categories, or in a culture's resistance to them? And what are the implications for the creation and maintenance of the presumed "natural" male heterosexual subject? How has male heterosexual subjectivity been established as a bulwark against the attractions of a homosexual desire that is repeatedly incited by the very culture that condemns it? Craft examines the discourses of nineteenth-century psychiatry and sexology; some of Freud's central writings; and Tennyson's In Memoriam, Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, Stoker's Dracula, and Lawrence's Women In Love.