Synopses & Reviews
“At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Loves Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism—toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siècle.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University
“Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelsons voice—moving with a litigators clean, panoptic brio—demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love.”—Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University
Review
"Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson's voicemoving with a litigator's clean, panoptic briodemonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love."Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University
Synopsis
A Stanford University Press classic.
Synopsis
The first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, this book focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by eight authors: Oscar Wilde, AndréGide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Marguerite Yourcenar, Mary Renault, and Roland Barthes. In doing so, the author both positions these authors as experimental and influential erotic theorists and protests the critical undervaluation of love (as opposed to desire) in the construction of sexuality as we know it.
Synopsis
The author examines ways in which nineteenth century conceptions of love shaped twentieth century conceptions of homosexuality.
Synopsis
The first extensive analysis of the relation of erotic philosophy to homosexuality in the modern period, this book focuses on homoerotic (mis)appropriations and subversions of homoerotic conceptions of romantic love in texts by eight authors: Oscar Wilde, AndréGide, Ronald Firbank, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Marguerite Yourcenar, Mary Renault, and Roland Barthes. In doing so, the author both positions these authors as experimental and influential erotic theorists and protests the critical undervaluation of love (as opposed to desire) in the construction of sexuality as we know it.
Synopsis
“ At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love’ s Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to Romanticism and urges forward toward modernism— toward the passionate merging, crystallization, camaraderie, experimentation, and mortal loss that mark our own fin de siè cle.” — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Duke University
“ Everywhere tenderly epigrammatic, Kevin Kopelson’ s voice— moving with a litigator’ s clean, panoptic brio— demonstrates that critique can be a form of courtship, even a form of love.” — Wayne Koestenbaum, Yale University
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-189) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Wilde's love deaths; 2. Pederastic trappings: Gide and Firbank; 3. Another other: Woolf and Stein; 4. Friends and lovers: Yourcenar and Renault; 5. Barthes's love-tricks; Notes; Index.