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Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England: A Sourcebook
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A Critique of Social Constructionsm and Postmodern Queer Theory
A collection of nearly 30 essays

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Bibliography of Gay and Lesbian History


Gothic Literature

Grub Street Chronicles
Early eighteenth-century newspaper reports

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CITATION: Rictor Norton, "Gay History and Literature: Essays by Rictor Norton",
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updated 28 July 2010

 


    The Homosexual Pastoral Tradition
  1. An Era of Idylls
  2. Edmund Spenser
  3. Affectionate Shepherds
  4. The School of Spenser
  5. Lovely Lad and Shame-Faced Catamite
  6. The Maid in Man's Attire
  7. Faithful Friend and Doting Lover
  8. Bibliography of Pastoral Literature

 


    Gay Love Letters
  1. My Dear Boy anthology
  2. Gay Love Letters through the Centuries
  3. Emperor Marcus Aurelius (c. AD 139)
  4. Flavius Philostratos (c. 3rd century)
  5. Paulinus of Nola & Ausonius (c. 4th century)
  6. Bo Juyi & Yuan Zhen (early 9th century)
  7. Saint Anselm (c. 1071–1075)
  8. Some Early Medieval Clerics
  9. Baudri of Bourgeuil (early 12th century)
  10. A Spanish Monk (c. 1100)
  11. Marsilio Ficino (1473)
  12. Pietro Aretino (1528)
  13. Michelangelo (1533)
  14. Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet (1573)
  15. King James and the Duke of Buckingham (1620-23)
  16. Francisco Correa Netto to Manoel Viegas (1664)
  17. Mashida Toyonoshin, a Samurai (1667)
  18. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
  19. John, Lord Hervey (1727–1731)
  20. Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1746, 1762)
  21. Johannes von Muller to Charles-Victor de Bonstetten (1774-1802)
  22. Alexander Hamilton (1779-80)
  23. Heinrich von Kleist (1805)
  24. William Beckford (1807)
  25. Lord Byron (1807)
  26. Thomas Jefferson Withers (1826)
  27. Hans Christian Andersen (1840s)
  28. Fanny and Stella
  29. Edmund Gosse (1879–1883)
  30. Tchaikovsky's Gay Love-Letters