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Author | : John Lauritsen |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2017-05 |
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ISBN | : 9780943742304 |
In 1822, two great poets ¿ Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron ¿ lived in Pisa, Italy, together with three friends. They met daily in Byron's palazzo for discussions, which sometimes lasted into the middle of the night. Although these men had wives and children, they were gay, for male love was an important part of their lives. They thought of themselves as ¿pariahs¿ in ¿exile¿, and for good reason. Men and boys in their home country, England, were being hanged for having sex with each other, whereas Italy had no such laws. All of them were ardent Hellenists, who knew well that male love had flourished in Ancient Greece ¿ the same male love that was persecuted in their own time. Despite the censorious efforts of friends and family, ample evidence survives that they loved other males. Homoeroticism in their works was usually coded for the ¿initiated¿, but was sometimes amazingly candid. After only half a year, the Shelley-Byron circle was blown apart by the untimely deaths of their leading members. John Lauritsen de-codes homoerotic references, reinterprets major works of English Romanticism, and places all in historical context. Love and sex between males is an ordinary, healthy part of the human sexual repertoire. For too long, biographers have falsified the love lives of the Shelley-Byron men. The time has come to bring them into the light of day.
Author | : John Lauritsen |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Desire in literature |
ISBN | : 9780943742151 |
Author | : Mary W Shelley |
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Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2021-02-17 |
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The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel. The book tells of a future world (the first-person narrative is that of a man living at the end of the 21st century) that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s.
Author | : Fiona MacCarthy |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 864 |
Release | : 2014-10-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1444799878 |
Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicomedy of Byron's marriage, his incestuous love for his half-sister Augusta and the clamorous attention of his female fans, she gives a new importance to his close male friendships, in particular that with his publisher John Murray. She tells the full story of their famous disagreement, ending as a rift between them as Byron's poetry became more recklessly controversial. Byron was a celebrity in his own lifetime, becoming a 'superstar' in 1812, after the publication of Childe Harold. The Byron legend grew to unprecedented proportions after his death in the Greek War of Independence at the age of thirty-six. The problem for a biographer is sifting the truth from the sentimental, the self-serving and the spurious. Fiona MacCarthy has overcome this to produce an immaculately researched biography, which is also her refreshing personal view.
Author | : Robert Lowe Bellamy |
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Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1924 |
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Author | : Peter Cochran |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2010-02-19 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1443820318 |
Byron and Women [and men] is a compilation of new biographical and literary essays, examining the poet’s bisexuality and the ways in which it affected his poetry and drama. Areas covered are Byron and gender-studies (a general introduction); Byron’s Boyfriends (an aspect of his life which has traditionally been neglected); the Male Gaze in the Oriental Tales; homosexuality in Venice; Byron’s Nottinghamshire love-life; sex and gender in Don Juan; bisexuality in Byron and Shakespeare; and Byron’s heroines contrasted with those of Mozart. The volume has as appendices new editions of the notorious poems Don Leon and Leon to Annbella, with startling theories as to their authorship.
Author | : Lita Judge |
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Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2018-01-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1626725004 |
A free verse biography of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, featuring over 300 pages of black-and-white watercolor illustrations.
Author | : Edward John Trelawny |
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Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Greece |
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Author | : Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Manchester (England) |
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Author | : Arthur Clutton-Brock |
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Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1909 |
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