Table of Contents

Introduction: Masculinity and Sexuality Part 1: Masculinities 1. Heroic Friendships 2. Gay Fops/Straight Fops 3. Sensibility and Its Symptoms Part 2: Sexualities 4. Gray's Tears 5. Beckford's Pederasty 6. Walpole's Secrets

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Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century archetypes of same-sex relations in which sensibility and sexuality emerge as interdependent.

About the Author

George Haggerty is professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th Century and Gothic Fiction/Gothic Form, co-editor (with Bonnie Zimmerman) of Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature, and editor of the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Gay History and Cultures.

Reviews

Men in Love makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the period. This is a fine example of gay studies casting light on a whole culture. -- Gregory Woods Times Literary Supplement (London) Like Rowland's, the book should be seen as one vista on the trek to recover how modern Western sexuality evolved its particular taxonomy. Highly recommended, particularly for graduate students through faculty. -- D. N. Mager Choice George Haggerty's book Men in Love is a complex and persuasive discussion of the phenomenon of public expression of male-male love. -- Kathleen Kincade The Eighteenth Century : A Current Biblography